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Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age,. / by Robert Seymour Conway ...
LIBRA PA6011 .C5 1928
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conway, Robert Seymour, 1864-1933.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil.
- Livy.
- Latin literature.
- Rome--Civilization.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Civilization.
- Rome--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 3 . pages, 3 unnumbered pages-162 pages : 16 plates (including maps) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- The Vergilian age.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1928.
- Contents:
- The proscription of 43 B.C.
- Where was Vergil's farm?
- The golden bough.
- The house of the high priest.
- An unnoticed aspect of Vergil's personality.
- Under Hannibal's shadow.
- The philosophy of Vergil.
- The portrait of a Roman noble.
- The architecture of the epic.
- Notes:
- "The nine lectures in this volume may be regarded as a continuation of my New studies of a great inheritance, published in 1921. They are concerned with the life of about forty years (55-17 B.C.) ... the true golden age of Roman literature."--Pref.
- OCLC:
- 1495668
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