The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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 120
... look you , th ' athversary , you may discuss unto the duke , look you , is digt himself . . . under the countermines . So Dickens's Mr. Jingle always talks in telegraphese abbreviations ( Pickwick Papers , chap . 2 ) : Tall lady ...
... look you , th ' athversary , you may discuss unto the duke , look you , is digt himself . . . under the countermines . So Dickens's Mr. Jingle always talks in telegraphese abbreviations ( Pickwick Papers , chap . 2 ) : Tall lady ...
Page 121
... look like small potatoes " ) . Niceros , and only he , has homo meus ( 62.4 ) and miles meus ( 62.13 ) . Then Echion has etiam si twice in a few lines ( 46.4 and 46.5 ) , while Seleucus repeats quid si non ( 42.5 and 42.7 ) . Seleucus ...
... look like small potatoes " ) . Niceros , and only he , has homo meus ( 62.4 ) and miles meus ( 62.13 ) . Then Echion has etiam si twice in a few lines ( 46.4 and 46.5 ) , while Seleucus repeats quid si non ( 42.5 and 42.7 ) . Seleucus ...
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... look at it and think how , when I was first making my laborious way through Homer's po- etry fifty - five years ago , I was not only puzzled by dozens of the questions which this book examines but also in despair of ever find- ing a ...
... look at it and think how , when I was first making my laborious way through Homer's po- etry fifty - five years ago , I was not only puzzled by dozens of the questions which this book examines but also in despair of ever find- ing a ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
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