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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... never been conceived before , modern men had found out things which had never been proved or believed possible of proof . They concluded therefore that civilized humanity as a whole had become better , and that their moral conduct ...
... never been conceived before , modern men had found out things which had never been proved or believed possible of proof . They concluded therefore that civilized humanity as a whole had become better , and that their moral conduct ...
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... never finished ; The Recluse was never finished ; Goethe had to make titanic efforts to finish Faust at the age of eighty ; Schiller never managed to produce a book on any classical subject to satisfy himself , and died ill - content ...
... never finished ; The Recluse was never finished ; Goethe had to make titanic efforts to finish Faust at the age of eighty ; Schiller never managed to produce a book on any classical subject to satisfy himself , and died ill - content ...
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... never ceased to regret that , through bad and perverse teaching , he had been denied the full understanding of the classics . Osler was one of many distinguished men of the nineteenth century who found that bad teaching stifled even the ...
... never ceased to regret that , through bad and perverse teaching , he had been denied the full understanding of the classics . Osler was one of many distinguished men of the nineteenth century who found that bad teaching stifled even the ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
Urheberrecht | |
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