From Gibbon to Auden : essays on the classical tradition /
Bowersock, G. W.(Glen Warren),1936-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.