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From Gibbon to Auden essays on the classical tradition

Preface. The Eighteenth Century. 1. Gibbon's Historical Imagination. 2. Gibbon on Civil War and Rebellion in the Decline of the Roman Empire. 3. Reflections on Gibbon's Library. 4. Watchmen: Gibbon's Autobiographies. 5. Suetonius in the Eighteenth Century. 6. The Rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The Nineteenth Century. 7. Sign Language. 8. Berlioz, Virgil, and Rome. 9. Edward Lear in Petra. 10. Burckhardt on Late Antiquity. The Twentieth Century. 11. The New Old World. 12. The Julian Poems of C.P. Cavafy. 13. Cavafy and Apollonios. 14. The New Cavafy. 15. The Later Momigliano. 16. A Mo.

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