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Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age

by: Conway, Robert Seymour, 1864-1933

Publication date: 1928

Topics: Virgil -- Knowledge -- Rome, Livy. Ab urbe condita, Virgil, Virgil, Virgil, Livy, Ab urbe condita (Livy), Latin literature -- History and criticism, Civilization, Historiography, Latin literature, Social conditions, Rome -- Civilization, Rome -- Social conditions, Rome -- Historiography, Rome (Empire)

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press

Collection: internetarchivebooks

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

viii pages, 3 leaves, [3]-162 pages 24 cm

The proscription of 43 B.C. -- Where was Vergil's farm? -- The golden bough -- The house of the high priest -- An unnoticed aspect of Vergil's personality -- Under Hannibal's shadow -- The philosophy of Vergil -- The portrait of a Roman noble -- The architecture of the epic

"The nine lectures in this volume may be regarded as a continuation of my New studies of a great inheritance, published in 1921. They are concerned with the life of about forty years (55-17 B.C.) ... the true golden age of Roman literature."--Preface

The proscription of 43 B.C.--Where was Vergil's farm?--The golden bough.--The house of the high priest.--An unnoticed aspect of Vergil's personality.--Under Hannibal's shadow.--The philosophy of Vergil.--The portrait of a Roman noble.--The architecture of the epic