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Latin Literature: A History
by Conte, Gian Biagio
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Translated by Joseph Solodow. Full green cloth. xxxiii, 827 pp. Very slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket slightly sunned at flaps. Fine overall. This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a bibliographic work, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, this book is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007865
- Title
- Latin Literature: A History
- Author
- Conte, Gian Biagio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st English Edition
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore and London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Gian Biagio Conte, Literature, latin Literature, Literary Studies, Latin, Joseph Solodow, Rome, ancient Rome, Historiography, Rome in Literature, Roman Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism; Language and Grammar Studies; Ancient Rome;
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