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Hardy, W.G. [William George ]

Turn Back the River

Macmillan & Co, 1938

40,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1938
Luogo di stampa
Toronto
Autore
Hardy, W.G. [William George ]
Editori
Macmillan & Co
Edizione
1st Canadian Edition.
Soggetto
FICTION ANCIENT ROME CATILINE CLODIA CATULLUS CICERO CANADIAN, WRITER
Descrizione
Very Good, Slight Chips & Tears
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

(Author was Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta) Fictional biography of Clodia "The story of a passionate , intelligent ,patrician woman set in the brilliant decadent Rome of the last days of the free Republic. The woman is Clodia, the lustrous-eyed 'Lesbia" for whom the romantic Catullus burnes so fiercely and who inspired him to write some of the most intense love lyrics of all time. She had a turbulent career, this Clodia. Daughter of one of the proudest houses of Rome . fell under the spell of the dark, enigmatic Catiline, later there were many men in her life - Julius Caesar . her husband the consul Metellus Celer, and Cicero, the great orator, who poured upon her one of the most vitriolic speeches ever composed by this master of invective" 385p.