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Rising from the ruins : Roman antiquities in neoclassic literature /

The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the "golden age" of man as well as a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swaffield, Bruce C. (Bruce Carl)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
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