Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age
By: by Robert Seymour Conway ...
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Virgil -- Knowledge -- Rome.; Livy.; Latin literature -- History and criticism.; Rome -- Civilization.; Rome -- Social conditions.; Rome -- Historiography.
Other titles: Vergilian age.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: The proscription of 43 B.C.; title: Where was Vergil's farm?; title: The golden bough.; title: The house of the high priest.; title: An unnoticed aspect of Vergil's personality.; title: Under Hannibal's shadow.; title: The philosophy of Vergil.; title: The portrait of a Roman noble.; title: The architecture of the epic.