The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1949 - 763 Seiten |
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... Greece , with the single exception of the Greek myths which reached the modern world through Rome . The Roman plays - plus some anachronisms and some solidly English touches - are like Rome . The Greek plays are not like Greece ...
... Greece , with the single exception of the Greek myths which reached the modern world through Rome . The Roman plays - plus some anachronisms and some solidly English touches - are like Rome . The Greek plays are not like Greece ...
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... Greece as the home of supreme physical beauty . Other countries have admired beauty together with wealth or power or pleasure or the service of God . None so much as Greece has prized beauty above everything else : beauty in costume ...
... Greece as the home of supreme physical beauty . Other countries have admired beauty together with wealth or power or pleasure or the service of God . None so much as Greece has prized beauty above everything else : beauty in costume ...
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... Greece knew that dramas and songs , tales and histories , are not only amusements for a moment but , because of their continuously fertile content , permanent possessions for the mind . This was the discovery of the Greeks . They were ...
... Greece knew that dramas and songs , tales and histories , are not only amusements for a moment but , because of their continuously fertile content , permanent possessions for the mind . This was the discovery of the Greeks . They were ...
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ITALY | 5 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
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