The Classick Pages: Classical Reading of Eighteenth-century AmericansMeyer Reinhold Pennsylvania State University, 1975 - 231 pages |
Contents
The Cult of Antiquity in America | 1 |
THESE GREAT MASTERS | 29 |
Florus | 35 |
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