The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9780192893963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

William Fitzgerald

Recenzje

William Fitzgerald's The Living Death of Antiquity is a striking title indeed...This collection of carousing Greek poems from across several centuries, it is claimed, inaugurates something of a tradition itself, advocating a 'timeless lifestyle of drinking, desiring, and singing'.

O autorze

After taking a BA in Classics at Oxford (1974) and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton (1980), William Fitzgerald taught for 23 years in the US, at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley. He returned to the UK in 2003 and taught at Cambridge University until 2007, when he became Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He has published books and articles on Latin literature, especially poetry, and on classical reception.