How Long to Read From Gibbon to Auden

How Long Does it Take to Read From Gibbon to Auden?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read From Gibbon to Auden by G.W. Bowersock

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically. The great Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon is in large part the unifying force of this collection as he appears prominently in the first four essays, beginning with Bowersock's engaging introduction to the methods and genius behind The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's profound influence is revealed in subsequent essays on Jacob Burckhardt, the nineteenth-century scholar famous for his history of the Italian Renaissance but whose work on late antiquity is only now being fully appreciated; the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, whose annotations on Gibbon's Decline and Fall tell us much about his own historical poems; and finally W. H. Auden, whose poem and little known essay "The Fall of Rome" were, in quirky ways, tributes to Gibbon. The collection reprints Auden's poem and essay in full. The result is a rich survey of the early modern and modern uses of the classical past by one of its most important contemporary commentators.

How long is From Gibbon to Auden?

From Gibbon to Auden by G.W. Bowersock is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Gibbon to Auden Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read From Gibbon to Auden aloud.

What Reading Level is From Gibbon to Auden?

From Gibbon to Auden is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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