Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age
Title:
Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age
Author:
Conway, Robert Seymour, 1864-1933.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1928.
Physical Description:
viii, 162 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"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.
Includes indixes.
Language:
English
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.
Format :
Book