E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series⁴

This series, cosponsored by Princeton University Press and the Warburg Institute in London, features prominent humanities scholars who address the rich legacy of the classical tradition in art, literature, and ideas, across historical periods.

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy K. J. P. Lowe
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art Philip Hardie
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists
How the Classics Made Shakespeare Jonathan Bate
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom Marjorie Curry Woods
Saint Augustine famously “wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,” and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil’s Aeneid and other...