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Record Nr.

UNINA9910659350403321

Autore

Bowersock G. W (Glen Warren), <1936->

Titolo

From Gibbon to Auden [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the classical tradition / / G.W. Bowersock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-281-99857-5

9786611998578

0-19-970407-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

940.2

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Europe History

Europe Civilization Classical influences

Europe Civilization 18th century

Europe Civilization 19th century

Europe Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; PART I: The Eighteenth Century; PART II: The Nineteenth Century; PART III: The Twentieth Century; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Preface. The Eighteenth Century. 1. Gibbon's Historical Imagination. 2. Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire. 3. Reflections on Gibbon's Library. 4. Watchmen: Gibbon's Autobiographies. 5. Suetonius in the Eighteenth Century. 6. The Rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The Nineteenth Century. 7. Sign Language. 8. Berlioz, Virgil, and Rome. 9. Edward Lear in Petra. 10. Burckhardt on Late Antiquity. The Twentieth Century. 11. The New Old World. 12. The Julian Poems of C. P. Cavafy. 13. Cavafy and Apollonios. 14. The New Cavafy. 15. The Later Momigliano. 16. A Mo