The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished classicists. This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition. One finds in these lectures a celebration of classical literature, conveyed through a humane form of scholarship, with emphasis on those aspects of great writing that make the classical authors worth reading - all of which earned for Gilbert Highet an enduring place in the history of his profession. |
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Page 25
... Aeschylus and concludes with his resurrection and return to the life of the upper world . Lighthearted and inventive though it is , there is still something sad and terrible about the Frogs : for it was produced when Athens was dying ...
... Aeschylus and concludes with his resurrection and return to the life of the upper world . Lighthearted and inventive though it is , there is still something sad and terrible about the Frogs : for it was produced when Athens was dying ...
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... Aeschylus is repre- sented as heavy and solid , Euripides as light and flimsy . This is be- cause Aeschylus embodies the wisdom which is largely uncon- scious and instinctive ( even his silences are not empty but heavy with brooding ) ...
... Aeschylus is repre- sented as heavy and solid , Euripides as light and flimsy . This is be- cause Aeschylus embodies the wisdom which is largely uncon- scious and instinctive ( even his silences are not empty but heavy with brooding ) ...
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... Aeschylus to the upper world . The play thus ends with a dead man , escorted by a dead man , bringing wisdom to the living ( Aeschylus had died before many of the audience were born ) . The light of the initiates ' torches symbolizes ...
... Aeschylus to the upper world . The play thus ends with a dead man , escorted by a dead man , bringing wisdom to the living ( Aeschylus had died before many of the audience were born ) . The light of the initiates ' torches symbolizes ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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