The Battle of the Books
Subtitle: History and Literature in the Augustan Age
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: April 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780801481994
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; 18th Century English Literature; Historiography; English; Literature: Classics; Ancient Rome
First sentence: In the pages that follow, I shall retell a story that was once famous, although it is now largely forgotten or misunderstood.