[PDF.48qw] From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition

From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition

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 | #2850087 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2011-10-28 |  2011-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.50 x.50 x8.40l,.72 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| essays by a modern historian on the classical tradition.|By A. John Silver|this is not a comprehensive review since i have not read most of the essays in this book, and i am not a historian by training. but i am an enthusiastic reader of gibbon's "decline and fall", and the first essay, "gibbon's historical imagination", is worth the cost of the book to me. other readers, more| ||"Remarkably wide-ranging, penetrating, witty, and polished." --Paul Cartledge, Classical World||"Not all modern classicists are as civilized as Glen Bowersock, whose expertise and understanding go far beyond whatever a quarter century at the Princeto

For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically.

The great Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon is in large part th...

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