T. Macci Plauti Mostellaria; with Notes Critical and Exegetical, and an Introduction, by E.A. Sonnenschein
Title | T. Macci Plauti Mostellaria; with Notes Critical and Exegetical, and an Introduction, by E.A. Sonnenschein PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
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Release | 1884 |
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T. Macci Plavti Mostellaria with notes critical and exegetical and an introduction by E. A. Sonnenschein, M. A., Professor of classics in the Mason College, Birmingham
Title | T. Macci Plavti Mostellaria with notes critical and exegetical and an introduction by E. A. Sonnenschein, M. A., Professor of classics in the Mason College, Birmingham PDF eBook |
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Pages | 163 |
Release | 1884 |
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Title | British Museum Catalogue of printed Books PDF eBook |
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Pages | 550 |
Release | 1894 |
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The Academy
Title | The Academy PDF eBook |
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Pages | 486 |
Release | 1885 |
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Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826
Title | Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826 PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Stephen Haller |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2024-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793643288 |
This book explores the influence of classical texts upon early European settlers and inhabitants of the Tidewater region of Virginia, addressing how Greek and Roman literature and culture shaped and sometimes challenged prevailing assumptions about personhood, liberty, town planning, and representative government in Virginia during the period of its expansion from the fort at Jamestown to Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia. Ben Haller introduces the reader to the Ovid translation which George Sandys penned during his time in Virginia as Treasurer; William Strachey’s account of the wreck of the Sea Venture, likely one inspiration for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; William Byrd II’s writings, including his secret diaries which record the intimate details of the life of an Indian Trader and plantation owner in the early eighteenth century; and Jefferson’s expansive Enlightenment Era appetite for knowledge classical and modern. Haller’s analysis of these texts is carefully anchored in a discussion of the cultural historical context of the English settlement of Virginia, the excavations of Pompeii, the eighteenth-century mania for Palladian architecture, the construction of the campus of the University of Virginia, and new Enlightenment ideals of personal liberty and human rights which came to the fore during Jefferson’s lifetime, and which he helped to enshrine in modern American political thought.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Pages | 472 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | English imprints |
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Title | The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1084 |
Release | 1885 |
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