The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... phrases like this ap- pear in all Greek prose - writers , but in Lysias they are notably common ; they are an ... phrase γενομένων τούτων means σοῦ ἐμοὶ XapiCouέvou : both ideas too bold to be , at least in the habitual style of ...
... phrases like this ap- pear in all Greek prose - writers , but in Lysias they are notably common ; they are an ... phrase γενομένων τούτων means σοῦ ἐμοὶ XapiCouέvou : both ideas too bold to be , at least in the habitual style of ...
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... phrase NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM ( " a new order of the ages " ) — a new beginning of history . This is adapted from Vergil , Bucolics 4 , the wonderful poem which fore- tells the opening of a new age of the world , with the birth of a ...
... phrase NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM ( " a new order of the ages " ) — a new beginning of history . This is adapted from Vergil , Bucolics 4 , the wonderful poem which fore- tells the opening of a new age of the world , with the birth of a ...
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... phrase in the Declaration of Independence , that among the rights given to men by God are " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happi- ness . " That is a strange phrase , is it not ? Life , yes , certainly . Liberty , most surely . But ...
... phrase in the Declaration of Independence , that among the rights given to men by God are " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happi- ness . " That is a strange phrase , is it not ? Life , yes , certainly . Liberty , most surely . But ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
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