The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... original context Vergil's phrase adnue coeptis ( Georgics 1.40 ) is di- rected to Augustus , whom the poet asks to favor his undertaking to write about the subject of farming . Ed . ] 2 [ In its original context Vergil's phrase magnus ...
... original context Vergil's phrase adnue coeptis ( Georgics 1.40 ) is di- rected to Augustus , whom the poet asks to favor his undertaking to write about the subject of farming . Ed . ] 2 [ In its original context Vergil's phrase magnus ...
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... original , in the hope of coming out with something like the poet's actual words ? And what happens when we find a line or a passage which is totally unintelligible , although it is in every one of the three hundred copies ? The scribes ...
... original , in the hope of coming out with something like the poet's actual words ? And what happens when we find a line or a passage which is totally unintelligible , although it is in every one of the three hundred copies ? The scribes ...
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... original languages . Yes , but there are many books scarcely worth reading through in the original , unless by special- ists . Very early in my own life I made a rule never to look at a translation of any Greek or Roman work - unless it ...
... original languages . Yes , but there are many books scarcely worth reading through in the original , unless by special- ists . Very early in my own life I made a rule never to look at a translation of any Greek or Roman work - unless it ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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