Humor in Varro
Subtitle: and other essays
By: [by] Harry E. Wedeck .
Contributors: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Varro, Marcus Terentius; Latin literature
Notes: Reprinted in part from various periodicals
Table of contents: title: The humorous element in Varro, Seneca, and Apuleius.; title: Agriculture and country-life in Latin literature.; title: Objurgation in Plautus.; title: The Roman attitude to foreign influence.; title: The treatment of epithet and simile in Homer, Vergil and Statius.; title: Affection for children amoung the Romans.; title: The humour of Hrotsvitha, a mediaeval nun.; title: Notes on the vocabulary of affection.; title: Notes on parallels.; title: Jerusalem; title: the Mecca of Palestine.; title: Jewish proselytizing among the Romans.; title: Translations into Latin of two stories of E.A. Poe: Silence: a fable. Fabula de umbra