From Gibbon to Auden - Essays on the Classical Tradition

Informationen zum Autor G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of more than 300 articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history, as well as the classical tradition in western literature. Klappentext For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically.

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• Authors: G W Bowersock, G. W. Bowersock, G W Bowersock
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199856947
• ISBN: 978-0-19-985694-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts