The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... speech has a neat little for- mal ending : " I believe that what I have said is enough ; if you think anything has been omitted and wish for more , ask " ( 234c4-5 ) . The author does not refer to the fact that the speech is incom ...
... speech has a neat little for- mal ending : " I believe that what I have said is enough ; if you think anything has been omitted and wish for more , ask " ( 234c4-5 ) . The author does not refer to the fact that the speech is incom ...
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... speech - three and only three , each with its own functions , each separate from and unlike the others . They called them - first , the legal speech ; second , the deliberative speech ; and third , the display speech . The aim of the ...
... speech - three and only three , each with its own functions , each separate from and unlike the others . They called them - first , the legal speech ; second , the deliberative speech ; and third , the display speech . The aim of the ...
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... speech has been planned , after the arguments have been ar- ranged , the whole framework must still be clothed in words . If the words are poorly chosen and clumsily placed , they will obscure the values of even the most powerful ...
... speech has been planned , after the arguments have been ar- ranged , the whole framework must still be clothed in words . If the words are poorly chosen and clumsily placed , they will obscure the values of even the most powerful ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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