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Author Vance, Norman, 1950-

Title The Victorians and Ancient Rome / Norman Vance
Published Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1997

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Description ix, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. Living Rome: Romantics and Revolution. 1. The Persistence of Rome. 2. Rome and European Revolutions. 3. Rome and the Writing of History -- Pt. II. Roman Poets in the Nineteenth Century. 4. Lucretius. 5. Catullus. 6. Virgil. 7. Ovid. 8. Horace -- Pt. III. Late Victorians and Later Rome. 9. Fictions of Rome; or, Love, Death and Glory. 10. Rome and Imperial Debate. 11. Decadence, Degeneration and Decline
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-311) and index
Subject Latin poetry -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
English literature -- Roman influences.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Civilization -- Roman influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056630
Rome -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094 -- Study and teaching http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008697 -- Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056823
United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625
Rome -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116719
Rome -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111034
LC no. 96020982
ISBN 0631180761 alkaline paper
Other Titles Victorians & ancient Rome