The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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 116
... interests Tibullus ; at least he never mentions it . Messalla was emphatically aloof from the circle of Octavian's close friends and quickly resigned the post of praefectus urbi , which made him governor of Rome as though it were a ...
... interests Tibullus ; at least he never mentions it . Messalla was emphatically aloof from the circle of Octavian's close friends and quickly resigned the post of praefectus urbi , which made him governor of Rome as though it were a ...
Page 131
... interests , are few in number , but he goes back and forward over them like a cross - town bus . His chief interest is himself — his physical health , his wealth , his past , his future , his wife , his will , and his funeral . To this ...
... interests , are few in number , but he goes back and forward over them like a cross - town bus . His chief interest is himself — his physical health , his wealth , his past , his future , his wife , his will , and his funeral . To this ...
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... interest led him to one or another , and then apparently spent his main effort on compressing the product of his imagination and his eloquence into the form which has weathered nearly twenty centuries . This was Vergil.3 His friend ...
... interest led him to one or another , and then apparently spent his main effort on compressing the product of his imagination and his eloquence into the form which has weathered nearly twenty centuries . This was Vergil.3 His friend ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
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