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Bland/B/B12
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- 1811-1823 (Creation)
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182p paper
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Inside the front cover is a note of the lectures given by Bland on Thucydides' and Plato's funeral orations and Cicero's 2nd Philippic giving the dates the lectures began, the subject, the year group lectured to, the examination being prepared for (Midsummer or Christmas), and the date the lectures ended. The years covered are 1811-12, 1814, 1817, 1820-21, 1823.
Lecture notes on Athens. pp.1-7.
Quotes from Quintilian and Cicero regarding Thucydides. p.9.
Commentary on Thucydides 'The Peloponnesian War' Book II. 34-46 (Pericles' funeral oration). pp.10-22.
'Plato's Funeral Oration'. Commentary on Plato's 'Menexenos'. pp.24-44.
'Cicero'. Biographical notes. pp.45-47.
'Philippics'. Lecture notes. p.49.
'2nd Philippic'. Quote from Juvenal 'Satires' 10.114-126. p.51.
'Cicero's 2nd Philippic'. Commentary. pp.52-163.
'Horace's Art of Poetry'. Commentary on lines 379 to the end. pp.167-181.
Quote regarding Horace from 'Essay on Criticism'. p.182.