The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... ancient Greece and Rome . In continental Europe this field is known as " classical philology " ; the use , in some circles , of " philology " to denote the study of language and literature — the result of abbrevi- ating the 19th ...
... ancient Greece and Rome . In continental Europe this field is known as " classical philology " ; the use , in some circles , of " philology " to denote the study of language and literature — the result of abbrevi- ating the 19th ...
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... ancient history and philos- ophy . Corresponding progress was made in the field of ancient history . Berthold Niebuhr , the pioneer in historical source criticism , applied a rational skepticism to ancient legends and traditions ; he ...
... ancient history and philos- ophy . Corresponding progress was made in the field of ancient history . Berthold Niebuhr , the pioneer in historical source criticism , applied a rational skepticism to ancient legends and traditions ; he ...
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... ancient works into Latin . By the end of the 12th century much of the ancient heritage was again available to the Latin West . The medieval world was caricatured by thinkers of the 18th - century Enlightenment as a period of darkness ...
... ancient works into Latin . By the end of the 12th century much of the ancient heritage was again available to the Latin West . The medieval world was caricatured by thinkers of the 18th - century Enlightenment as a period of darkness ...
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SAN FRANCISCO | 1 |
SÃO PAULO | 6 |
SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE | 10 |
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