The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... beautiful myth - the tale of the princess Psyche , who was sent down to the underworld to bring back some of the beauty of the queen of the dead and who , when she opened the casket that contained it , was nearly killed by the deadly ...
... beautiful myth - the tale of the princess Psyche , who was sent down to the underworld to bring back some of the beauty of the queen of the dead and who , when she opened the casket that contained it , was nearly killed by the deadly ...
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... beautiful princess . She was so beautiful ( this was long ago in the pagan days ) that people began to say she was beauty incarnate ; she was the divine embodiment of beauty ; she was the goddess Venus - alive , visible , tangible , in ...
... beautiful princess . She was so beautiful ( this was long ago in the pagan days ) that people began to say she was beauty incarnate ; she was the divine embodiment of beauty ; she was the goddess Venus - alive , visible , tangible , in ...
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... beautiful , al- most fabulously beautiful . She belongs to a family which has al- ways prided itself on remaining above human entanglements , re- mote from complicated human emotions ; and when she yields for a single night to her ...
... beautiful , al- most fabulously beautiful . She belongs to a family which has al- ways prided itself on remaining above human entanglements , re- mote from complicated human emotions ; and when she yields for a single night to her ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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