List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550)
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List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550)
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Literary descriptions of cities form a literary genre that originated in Ancient Greek epideictic rhetoric. They can be prose or poetry. Many take the form of an urban eulogy which praise their subject. Laments to a city's past glories are sometimes also included in the genre. Descriptiones often mix topographical information with abstract material on the spiritual and legal aspects of the town or city, and with social observations on its inhabitants. They generally give a more extended treatmen
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2016-09-08T22:59:10Z
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2024-09-11T21:10:17Z
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