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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... Nature is usually described in classical terms - sometimes very inappropriately . The great ordeal in The Poem of Araucania where the Indian chief Caupolicán holds up a huge log for twenty- four hours is timed by the appearances of ...
... Nature is usually described in classical terms - sometimes very inappropriately . The great ordeal in The Poem of Araucania where the Indian chief Caupolicán holds up a huge log for twenty- four hours is timed by the appearances of ...
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... Nature - not mother Nature , but stepmother Nature , indifferent or cruel . There is a long discussion on suicide , between the Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry , and another on the longing for death which Leopardi so often felt : he ...
... Nature - not mother Nature , but stepmother Nature , indifferent or cruel . There is a long discussion on suicide , between the Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry , and another on the longing for death which Leopardi so often felt : he ...
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... nature are totally bad , depraved beyond human redemption , and the view that both contain much good which can be bettered . The condemnation of human nature by ascetic Christians has often provoked an equally violent counter ...
... nature are totally bad , depraved beyond human redemption , and the view that both contain much good which can be bettered . The condemnation of human nature by ascetic Christians has often provoked an equally violent counter ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
Urheberrecht | |
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