From Gibbon to Auden : essays on the classical tradition /
Preface. The Eighteenth Century. 1. Gibbon's Historical Imagination. 2. Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire. 3. Reflections on Gibbon's Library. 4. Watchmen: Gibbon's Autobiographies. 5. Suetonius in the Eighteenth Century. 6. The Rediscovery of Hercul...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gibbon's historical imagination
- Gibbon on civil war and rebellion in the decline of the Roman empire
- Reflections on Gibbon's library
- Watchmen: Gibbon's autobiographies
- Suetonius in the eighteenth century
- The rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii
- Sign language
- Berlioz, Virgil, and Rome
- Edward Lear in Petra
- Burckhardt on late antiquity from the Constantin to the Griechische Kulturgeschichte
- The new old world
- The Julian poems of C.P. Cavafy
- Cavafy and Apollonios
- The new Cavafy
- The later Momigliano
- A modern Aesop
- Auden on the fall of Rome.