The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... believe that the world was created utterly evil . We find it very hard to believe that it was cre- ated by pure chance , without any good or evil significance . We are unwilling to believe that it was created imperfect , partly good and ...
... believe that the world was created utterly evil . We find it very hard to believe that it was cre- ated by pure chance , without any good or evil significance . We are unwilling to believe that it was created imperfect , partly good and ...
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... believe . The simple unpretentious form , the bare terse style , and all the rest of his devices are meant to make his readers believe that the books contain the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . Well , do they ? Are ...
... believe . The simple unpretentious form , the bare terse style , and all the rest of his devices are meant to make his readers believe that the books contain the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . Well , do they ? Are ...
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... believe impossible things was to " draw a long breath , and shut your eyes . " 4 I cannot believe , for example , that when Keats wrote that on first looking into Chapman's Homer he felt like an astronomer discovering a new planet ...
... believe impossible things was to " draw a long breath , and shut your eyes . " 4 I cannot believe , for example , that when Keats wrote that on first looking into Chapman's Homer he felt like an astronomer discovering a new planet ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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