From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition

by Glen W. Bowersock

Book Overview

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.

The great Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019985694X
• ISBN13: 9780199856947
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"