Author: O'Loughlin, Michael
Title: The Garlands of Repose.The Literary Celebration of Civic & Retired Leisure: The Traditions of Homer & Vergil, Horace & Montaigne
Description: Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xix,326 pp. Minor rubbing, small tear to head of spine, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Garlands of Repose; The Dream of Ease: Images of Leisure from Homer to Theocritus: The Public Context; The Private Focus;Hoc erat in votis: Civic & Retired Leisure in Vergil & Horace: The Public Context; The Private Focus; Deus nobis haec otia fecit: From Christian Civic Leisure to the Retired Leisure of Montaigne: The Public Context; The Private Focus.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Classical Philology, Literary Criticism, Leisure, Homer, Vergil, Horace, Montaigne,