Word: highet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version is slangy, a bit hammy in spots, and not likely to strain the minds of readers. Highet hopes that it would have pleased Menander, "who loved people, like Shakespeare and Moliere. and so transformed Greek comedy from its original fantasy into reality...
...Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author (The Art of Teaching) and classicist who teaches Greek and Latin at Columbia University. It took him a week to translate the play's six-beat Greek iambics into six-beat English iambics...
Perhaps reading too far, Torrilhon detects myxedema (underactive thyroid) in the swollen eyelids, sparse lashes, dry hair and "shivering, apathetic aspect" of the bride in the renowned canvas, The Peasant Wedding. (Critic Gilbert Highet saw the bride as "a healthy, blowsy heifer," whose smirk and downcast eyes hide unseemly thoughts: "I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich.") In the five sightless beggars stumbling into a ditch in the famous Parable of the Blind, Torrilhon sees a whole ophthalmological catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...
...Pang Among Flowers. Highet's book places its poets at their geographical point of departure (Catullus at Verona, Vergil near Mantua, etc.) and takes them to their common destination. Rome. Even more fascinating than their individual styles and talents, which Author Highet expertly analyzes, is a common historical drama linking the seven together in a way which Author Highet suggests but perhaps never sufficiently emphasizes. The eldest, Catullus, died around 54 B.C., ten years before Caesar was assassinated; the youngest, Juvenal, was born around 60 A.D., six years after Nero came to power. In little more than a century...