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Humor in Varro, and other essays
- Title
- Humor in Varro, and other essays / [by] Harry E. Wedeck ...
- Author
- Wedeck, Harry E., 1894-1996.
- Publication
- Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1929.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | NCZ (Wedeck, H. E. Humour in Varro) | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Description
- 112 p.; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Reprinted in part from various periodicals.
- Contents
- The humorous element in Varro, Seneca, and Apuleius.--Agriculture and country-life in Latin literature.--Objurgation in Plautus.--The Roman attitude to foreign influence.--The treatment of epithet and simile in Homer, Vergil and Statius.--Affection for children among the Romans.--The humour of Hrotsvitha, a mediaeval nun.--Notes on the vocabulary of affection.--Notes on parallels.--Jerusalem--the Mecca of Palestine.--Jewish proselytizing among the Romans.--Translations into Latin of two stories of E.A. Poe: Silence: a fable. Fabula de umbra.
- Call Number
- NCZ (Wedeck, H. E. Humour in Varro)
- LCCN
- 30017746
- OCLC
- 10199220
- Author
- Wedeck, Harry E., 1894-1996.
- Title
- Humor in Varro, and other essays / [by] Harry E. Wedeck ...
- Imprint
- Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1929.
- Added Author
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Research Call Number
- NCZ (Wedeck, H. E. Humour in Varro)