The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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Page 135
... tell him when a spell was being cast . He had means of persuading her . One day she told him that that very evening her mistress was going to change herself into a bird and fly out to visit a young man * Presented in 1955 on Highet's ...
... tell him when a spell was being cast . He had means of persuading her . One day she told him that that very evening her mistress was going to change herself into a bird and fly out to visit a young man * Presented in 1955 on Highet's ...
Page 276
... tell from the poetry of Dylan Thomas , from the novels of Marcel Proust and Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner , and from the dramas of Tennessee Williams . On the other hand , without the Greek and Roman themes and patterns , it is ...
... tell from the poetry of Dylan Thomas , from the novels of Marcel Proust and Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner , and from the dramas of Tennessee Williams . On the other hand , without the Greek and Roman themes and patterns , it is ...
Page 313
... tell . The problem has grown more complicated because new factors have intruded — such as the growing disparity between salaries in pri- vate schools and private universities , and salaries paid by the tax- payers in state - supported ...
... tell . The problem has grown more complicated because new factors have intruded — such as the growing disparity between salaries in pri- vate schools and private universities , and salaries paid by the tax- payers in state - supported ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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