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From Gibbon to Auden - Essays on the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
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From Gibbon to Auden - Essays on the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
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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.
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