The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... Homer's day thought that war was a regular and necessary part of human life ; it meant suffering for those who were beaten , but glory and loot for those who won ; and although Homer sometimes calls it " dreadful war , " he clearly ...
... Homer's day thought that war was a regular and necessary part of human life ; it meant suffering for those who were beaten , but glory and loot for those who won ; and although Homer sometimes calls it " dreadful war , " he clearly ...
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... Homer the hero had no guide , except for the occasional visits from his kindly guardian Athena ; and in the sequel ... Homer's Odyssey is easy to read - pro- vided that you can read a translation of a poem dealing with a dis- tant epoch ...
... Homer the hero had no guide , except for the occasional visits from his kindly guardian Athena ; and in the sequel ... Homer's Odyssey is easy to read - pro- vided that you can read a translation of a poem dealing with a dis- tant epoch ...
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... Homer deeply and tries in this very poem to rival Homer's vocabulary ; so you would expect him to try to write regular powerful but disci- plined verse . But no . To represent Odyssey 11.13-22 , he produces this ( Cantos 1.11-18 ) ...
... Homer deeply and tries in this very poem to rival Homer's vocabulary ; so you would expect him to try to write regular powerful but disci- plined verse . But no . To represent Odyssey 11.13-22 , he produces this ( Cantos 1.11-18 ) ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
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