The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert HighetGilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of Latin at Columbia University, was one of the twentieth century's most erudite and distinguished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 This book contains virtually all Professor Highet's unpublished classical lectures, which have been arranged in three groups - Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and the Classical Tradition.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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... told it to illustrate the proverb that fools never learn until they are hurt ; and he told it wrongly . It was he who changed what had been a large immovable storage jar on earth into a small portable casket brought down from heaven ...
... told it to illustrate the proverb that fools never learn until they are hurt ; and he told it wrongly . It was he who changed what had been a large immovable storage jar on earth into a small portable casket brought down from heaven ...
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... told many hundreds of years ago by a skillful storyteller . It has often been interpreted in art and music and poetry and later fiction and even psychology , but it has never been fully understood . It was first told ( so far as we know ) ...
... told many hundreds of years ago by a skillful storyteller . It has often been interpreted in art and music and poetry and later fiction and even psychology , but it has never been fully understood . It was first told ( so far as we know ) ...
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... told ( General Prologue 294-95 ) , would be Twenty books , clad in black or red , Of Aristotle and his philosophy . Very praiseworthy ; but do you know what these books would cost him ? I learn from a Chaucer expert that they would cost ...
... told ( General Prologue 294-95 ) , would be Twenty books , clad in black or red , Of Aristotle and his philosophy . Very praiseworthy ; but do you know what these books would cost him ? I learn from a Chaucer expert that they would cost ...
Contents
Aristophanes | 9 |
Aristophanes Frogs | 24 |
Platos Phaedrus | 30 |
Copyright | |
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