The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1967 - 763 Seiten This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature. |
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... greatest works of the period are disguised symbols of hatred for the oligarchs and the wish to dominate them . Marlowe's tragedies seethe with the lust for power . Shakespeare's greatest plays all deal with rebels : Hamlet with the ...
... greatest works of the period are disguised symbols of hatred for the oligarchs and the wish to dominate them . Marlowe's tragedies seethe with the lust for power . Shakespeare's greatest plays all deal with rebels : Hamlet with the ...
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... greatest heroine was a prehistoric Greek princess . Purcell's finest opera is about Dido and Aeneas . Handel's best - known song comes from an opera about Xerxes . Pope and Boileau both strove to reincarnate Horace in themselves , and ...
... greatest heroine was a prehistoric Greek princess . Purcell's finest opera is about Dido and Aeneas . Handel's best - known song comes from an opera about Xerxes . Pope and Boileau both strove to reincarnate Horace in themselves , and ...
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... greatest master of prose who ever wrote : the Roman Cicero ( 106-43 B.C. ) . He himself had a number of styles — colloquialism in his private letters , half - formal dialogue in his philosophical and critical treatises , and a ...
... greatest master of prose who ever wrote : the Roman Cicero ( 106-43 B.C. ) . He himself had a number of styles — colloquialism in his private letters , half - formal dialogue in his philosophical and critical treatises , and a ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
Urheberrecht | |
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