{"product_id":"from-gibbon-to-auden-essays-on-the-classical-tradition-9780199856947","title":"From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eessays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/em\u003e. Gibbon's profound\u003cbr\u003einfluence 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\u003cbr\u003eFall 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a rich survey of the early modern and modern uses of the classical past by one of its most important contemporary commentators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G. W. Bowersock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199856947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eG.W. Bowersock\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of more than 300 articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history, as well as the classical tradition in western literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937665400947,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b5bfd0ab-5740-4fa2-8b9d-ea6fa5827f47.jpg?v=1647995305","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/from-gibbon-to-auden-essays-on-the-classical-tradition-9780199856947","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}