From Gibbon to Auden
Essays on the Classical Tradition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 March 2009
- ISBN 9780195376678
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 145x211x25 mm
- Weight 406 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white halftone illustrations 0
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Target group: students and scholars of classical studies
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For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically.
The great Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon is in large part the unifying force of this collection as he appears prominently in the first four essays, beginning with Bowersock's engaging introduction to the methods and genius behind The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's profound influence is revealed in subsequent essays on Jacob Burckhardt, the nineteenth-century scholar famous for his history of the Italian Renaissance but whose work on late antiquity is only now being fully appreciated; the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, whose annotations on Gibbon's Decline and Fall tell us much about his own historical poems; and finally W. H. Auden, whose poem and little known essay "The Fall of Rome" were, in quirky ways, tributes to Gibbon. The collection reprints Auden's poem and essay in full.
The result is a rich survey of the early modern and modern uses of the classical past by one of its most important contemporary commentators.
The best scholards communicate intellectual and aesthetic pleasure as well as ensuring the concentrated engagement of their readers, and [Bowerstock] is a master in both respects ... argued with great precision, elegance and economy. There is not only a palpable intelligence and sensibility at work throughout the collection, but one that both cumulatively and disctinctly develops across the essays a genuinely informing thesis
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Eighteenth Century
Gibbon's Historical Imagination
Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire
Reflections on Gibbon's Library
Watchmen: Gibbon's Autobiographies
Suetonius in the Eighteenth Century
The Rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii
The Nineteenth Century
Sign Language
Berlioz, Virgil, and Rome
Edward Lear in Petra
Burckhardt on Late Antiquity
The Twentieth Century
The New Old World
The Julian Poems of C. P. Cavafy
Cavafy and Apollonios
The New Cavafy
The Later Momigliano
A Modern Aesop
Auden on the Fall of Rome
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