Flaubert and the literature of classical antiquity

It has long been recognized that Flaubert took a great deal of interest in the literature of classical antiquity. Contemporaries such as Gautier and Maupassant considered him widely-read; a significant minority of his works - La Tentation de saint Antoine, Salammbô and Hérodias- are set roughly duri...

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Main Author: Goddard, Stephen Howard
Published: University of Oxford 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313111