The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... symbols ; and so origi- nally is the eagle itself . ( Benjamin Franklin did not like it and pro- posed that the national bird of America should ... symbols , and symbols which are preserved for many centuries AMERICA'S CLASSICAL HERITAGE 171.
... symbols ; and so origi- nally is the eagle itself . ( Benjamin Franklin did not like it and pro- posed that the national bird of America should ... symbols , and symbols which are preserved for many centuries AMERICA'S CLASSICAL HERITAGE 171.
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Gilbert Highet Robert J. Ball. symbols , and symbols which are preserved for many centuries show a deep underlying resolution and bear witness to a set of en- during ideals . Not all but some of the ideals which inspired the Founding ...
Gilbert Highet Robert J. Ball. symbols , and symbols which are preserved for many centuries show a deep underlying resolution and bear witness to a set of en- during ideals . Not all but some of the ideals which inspired the Founding ...
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... symbols , primitive weapons , fragments of pottery ; and then , as they got deeper , they found skeletons , royal skeletons wearing their golden crowns , deep below the detritus of ages . Grave after grave was revealed . Schliemann had ...
... symbols , primitive weapons , fragments of pottery ; and then , as they got deeper , they found skeletons , royal skeletons wearing their golden crowns , deep below the detritus of ages . Grave after grave was revealed . Schliemann had ...
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Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
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