Autor(en)

Conway, Robert Seymour:

Verlag / Jahr

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Format / Einband

Original hardcover. 160 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 468 g

Bestell-Nr

1172461

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Zustand: Ausgefranzte Seitenränder. Gelblich verfärbter Einbandrücken. Ansonsten altersbedingt im sehr guten Zustand. / Condition: Frayed page edges. Yellowish discolored spine of binding. Otherwise in very good condition due to age. - Content: The nine lectures in this volume may be regarded as a con-7.-.nation 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.), a period which, in spite of political vicis-¿rudes, has a unity of its own, the true golden age of Roman immature; and they will, I hope,serve to show that its govern-ing conceptions are represented most clearly by Vergil, so rha: it may be naturally called the Vergilian Age. The purpose of this volume differs somewhat from that of the Great Inheritance. What I have here tried to do is to ientify the elements in the feeling of the time which shaped, :r coloured, the thought of its great writers. This involved seme new study of its historical conditions, but my object »is not to describe those conditions, which are, for the most 7 art, well known, — if one can use the phrase of anything in a - Tent history, — but rather to discover what the poets and mrians really felt about them. Thus the second lecture, the ugh it is an essay in topographic research, suggests ques-....2 of another kind: What did Vergil feel about his first ::-er And how did he judge the events by which he lost it? It is the atmosphere round the authors which we ought to rreathe again if we are to understand their work; and this my be often felt less clearly in what they wrote explicitly the incidents of that day than in their reflections on events, some of them remote in time, or even wholly imaginary. For example, the Hannibalic War, though it er: led a century and a half before Vergil’s generation, never-ne ess was clearly present to it as a sombre historical picture. Arnd what Vergil’s contemporaries felt about the different ascects of that war was closely linked with their own experi-ra m If this was so, we shall not fully understand what they w : :e unless we have realised this connexion. From this point of view the different chapters contribute az 1 single purpose; nevertheless they may be found use-me by one, as in fact they were written. They are arranged in what I believe to be the chronological order in which the parts of Roman literature with which they are chiefly concerned were first written. Thus, for example, the third lecture, though its topic is taken from Book VI of the Aeneid, is intended chiefly to make clear the new light which flashed out upon the world of 40 b.c. in Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue. The next lecture is concerned with a prosaic but still significant incident of 36 b.c. One accidental, but perhaps not inconvenient, result of this arrangement is that the lectures on parts of Livy’s work and other documents in prose alternate with those devoted to Vergil, save that the second combines both kinds of evidence. Five of the lectures were delivered as part of a public course on Vergil in Harvard University last spring; among them is the seventh, which contains the fullest statement of the views for which I am most concerned to plead. All the other lectures were implied and some were actually given, though in a less formal shape, as part of the Graduate and other Courses for which I was responsible in that half-year. But it is hardly necessary to add that the work on which they were based was begun long before 1927. Most of the lectures had taken shape, in one form or another, as part of my work at Manchester since 1920; and I am indebted to the kindness of the editors of the John Rylands Library Bulletin and of Discovery, who have allowed me to use freely a good deal of matter which has appeared from time to time in those periodicals. My best thanks are also due to the Harvard University Press for its kind offer to publish the volume; and to their senior press-reader, whose thoughtful criticism has removed not a few obscurities. I have further to express my gratitude to my distinguished friend and former pupil, Professor J. Whatmough, F'ellow of the American Academy, for his great kindness in seeing the prefatory and index matter through the press, during my absence on a visit to the Universities of Australia and New Zealand, for which I am now embarked.

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