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Greco-Roman literature and culture in the imagination of Virginia's Tidewater region, 1607-1826 : the empire of the mind / Benjamin Stephen Haller.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2024]Description: ix, 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781793643278
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Greco-Roman literature and culture in the imagination of Virginia's Tidewater region, 1607-1826DDC classification:
  • 880.09755/1 23/eng/20240221
LOC classification:
  • F232.T54 H35 2024
Contents:
Apoikia: Voyages of Exploration Greek, Roman, and English -- Questions of Origins: Ovid, Shakespeare, and the Origins of the Peoples of the New World -- George Sandys: Relation of a Voyage begun Ann. Dom. 1610 and Sandys in Virginia -- O Cyclops, Cyclops! George Sandys's Representations of Ethnic Alterity in the Cyclops Episodes of Metamorphoses 13 and 14 -- William Strachey's Horace 3.27, the True Reportory, and the Empire of the Mind -- The Arcadia of William Byrd II's Westover Plantation -- A Promissory Note: Thomas Jefferson's Architectural and Constitutional Ideals.
Summary: "This book explores the influence of classical Greek and Latin literature on the early settlers and residents of the Tidewater area of Virginia, such as Ovid translator George Sandys, William Strachey (survivor of the shipwreck which inspired The Tempest), Indian Trader William Byrd II, and Thomas Jefferson"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Apoikia: Voyages of Exploration Greek, Roman, and English -- Questions of Origins: Ovid, Shakespeare, and the Origins of the Peoples of the New World -- George Sandys: Relation of a Voyage begun Ann. Dom. 1610 and Sandys in Virginia -- O Cyclops, Cyclops! George Sandys's Representations of Ethnic Alterity in the Cyclops Episodes of Metamorphoses 13 and 14 -- William Strachey's Horace 3.27, the True Reportory, and the Empire of the Mind -- The Arcadia of William Byrd II's Westover Plantation -- A Promissory Note: Thomas Jefferson's Architectural and Constitutional Ideals.

"This book explores the influence of classical Greek and Latin literature on the early settlers and residents of the Tidewater area of Virginia, such as Ovid translator George Sandys, William Strachey (survivor of the shipwreck which inspired The Tempest), Indian Trader William Byrd II, and Thomas Jefferson"-- Provided by publisher.

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