The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... story of Pandora and her box , at least in outline . It is beautiful and rather horrible , and ( like most of the old stories ) rather confused and silly here and there . It comes down to us from early Greek legend . Pandora was the ...
... story of Pandora and her box , at least in outline . It is beautiful and rather horrible , and ( like most of the old stories ) rather confused and silly here and there . It comes down to us from early Greek legend . Pandora was the ...
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... story . The fantastically decorative style of the book ( which makes it so hard to read in Latin ) does not appear ... story . There is not one story but many - fifteen or twenty stories interwoven with the main fabric , after the ...
... story . The fantastically decorative style of the book ( which makes it so hard to read in Latin ) does not appear ... story . There is not one story but many - fifteen or twenty stories interwoven with the main fabric , after the ...
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... story . The three books are so different from one another and from the original story that you might well ask yourself whether you were approaching one single theme or several ; but the basis of the Greek myths is that they fertilize ...
... story . The three books are so different from one another and from the original story that you might well ask yourself whether you were approaching one single theme or several ; but the basis of the Greek myths is that they fertilize ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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