The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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 34
... less than five pages . The former , kaì μèv dŋ , is an odd combination , which is a specialty of Lysias and is far less common in all other Attic writers.2 However , in this little speech it occurs far more fre- quently than it does in ...
... less than five pages . The former , kaì μèv dŋ , is an odd combination , which is a specialty of Lysias and is far less common in all other Attic writers.2 However , in this little speech it occurs far more fre- quently than it does in ...
Page 252
... less developed peoples farther and farther behind . The population of these peoples is increasing faster than their production of food - which means that every year they have less surplus to use for the advancement of ideas and ...
... less developed peoples farther and farther behind . The population of these peoples is increasing faster than their production of food - which means that every year they have less surplus to use for the advancement of ideas and ...
Page 290
... less formal . Their manners are less controlled . Their motives are usually a good deal more complicated . ( For example , the attempt of Camus to drama- tize the insanity of the emperor Caligula is so subtle that it is al- most ...
... less formal . Their manners are less controlled . Their motives are usually a good deal more complicated . ( For example , the attempt of Camus to drama- tize the insanity of the emperor Caligula is so subtle that it is al- most ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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