Collected Essays

Zusatztext Rich and rewarding...Informed throughout by a striking unity of method and outlook...A remarkably delicate ear for recurring themes and ideas, far beyond mere verbal echoes, distinguishes the entire book, as does a passionate concern with ethics....Here is the finest exegete of classical literature of his generation....This splendid collection will serve...as an inspiration far beyond the circle of those who knew and loved its author. Klappentext This collection of the writings of the late scholar Colin Macleod includes more than thirty essays--two never before published--on topics ranging from Horace! Thucydides! and Greek epic and tragedy to Roman love poetry and early Christian mysticism. Zusammenfassung Colin Macleod died in December 1981 at the age of 38. Many regarded him as already one of the most profound interpreters in our times of Greek and Latin literature and ideas; and it was widely felt that his essays should be collected in a single volume. There are twenty longer essays and some dozen shorter ones; the author's marginal notes to his own writings have bene collected as an appendix.

Product details

• Authors: C.w. Macleod, Colin Macleod, Colin (Late Fellow and Tutor Macleod, Macleod Colin
• Assisted by: Oliver Taplin (Foreword), Taplin Oliver (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1996
• EAN: 9780198150848
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815084-8
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval