From Gibbon to Auden essays on the classical tradition

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bowersock, G. W. 1936- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gibbon's historical imagination
  • Gibbon on civil war and rebellion in the decline of the Roman empire
  • Reflections on Gibbon's library
  • Watchmen: Gibbon's autobiographies
  • Suetonius in the eighteenth century
  • The rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii
  • Sign language
  • Berlioz, Virgil, and Rome
  • Edward Lear in Petra
  • Burckhardt on late antiquity from the Constantin to the Griechische Kulturgeschichte
  • The new old world
  • The Julian poems of C.P. Cavafy
  • Cavafy and Apollonios
  • The new Cavafy
  • The later Momigliano
  • A modern Aesop
  • Auden on the fall of Rome.