Conway, Robert Seymour, 1864-1933.

Harvard lectures on the Vergilian age / by Robert Seymour Conway ... - Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1928. - viii,162 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

"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."--Pref

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

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Livy
Virgil


Latin literature


Rome--Civilization
Rome--Social conditions

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