From Gibbon to Auden essays on the classical tradition

From Gibbon to Auden : essays on the classical tradition / G. W. Bowersock.

Author/creator	Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	ix, 240 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Europe--Civilization --Classical influences. Europe--Civilization --18th century. Europe--Civilization --19th century. Europe--Civilization --20th century.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2008026676
ISBN	9780195376678 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0195376676 (alk. paper)

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