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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.