Book #123552

The Garlands of Repose: the Literary Celebration of Civic and Retired Leisure, the Traditions of Homer and Vergil, Horace and Montaigne

Michael O'Loughlin

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: Seventy-Eighth Printing
Publisher: Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978.
ISBN: 0226626571

Price: $40.00

A Fine Later Printing housed in a dust-jacket of equal condition ; is a book about the literary connections between the works of Homer, Vergil, Horace, and Montaigne. It discusses how these authors use the traditions of their predecessors to write about different aspects of life.

The Garlands of Repose is a book about the literary connections between the works of Homer, Vergil, Horace, and Montaigne. It discusses how these authors use the traditions of their predecessors to write about different aspects of life, including leisure and civic life.; 8vo; 326 pages.