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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates
Inbunden, 2019
4385 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Xenophon
Inbunden, 2026
3494 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Xenophon traces the legacy of this student of Socrates and classical author from his own times to the present day — starting from Xenophon’s reception in Greek and Roman antiquity, through appropriations and transmission of his writings from late Antiquity to …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero
Inbunden, 2015
2974 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the …
Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought
Inbunden, 2015
4014 kr
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Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought offers clear, accessible essays to assist a new generation of readers in their introduction to Strauss’ writings on the ancients, and to deepen the understanding of those who have already benefitted from his work.Strauss …
Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Av Helen Roche, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Inbunden, 2017
3398 kr
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The first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus
Inbunden, 2017
3842 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides
Inbunden, 2015
4528 kr
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy
Scholarly, Theatrical and Literary Receptions
Inbunden, 2016
2957 kr
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In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Eric Dodson-Robinson incorporates essays by specialists working across disciplines and national literatures into a subtle narrative tracing the diverse scholarly, literary and theatrical receptions of Seneca's tragedies. The tragedies, …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2016
3420 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle provides a systematic yet accessible account of the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in Antiquity. To date, there has been no comprehensive attempt to explain this complex phenomenon. This volume fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the …
Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition
Inbunden, 2014
3398 kr
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George Grote’s (1794-1871) extensive publications on ancient Greek history and philosophy remain landmarks in the history of classical scholarship. Since the late 20thcentury, lively interest in the works of Grote has seen his profile revived and his ongoing significance highlighted: he has taken …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius
Inbunden, 2024
3971 kr
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As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Av Philip Walsh
Inbunden, 2016
2947 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Av Harold Tarrant, François Renaud m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3714 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond
Inbunden, 2016
3528 kr
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Inbunden, 2016
2401 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two world …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles
Inbunden, 2017
3714 kr
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles offers a comprehensive account of the influence, reception and appropriation of all extant Sophoclean plays, as well as the fragmentary Satyr play The Trackers, from Antiquity to Modernity, across cultures and civilizations, encompassing multiple …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
Av Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser
Inbunden, 2019
3743 kr
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Av Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3104 kr
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A wide range of specialists provide a comprehensive overview of the reception of Pythagorean ideas in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, shedding new light especially on the understudied ‘Medieval Pythagoras’ of the Latin West. They also explore the survival of Pythagoreanism in the Arabic, …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2021
3785 kr
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This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and …
Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas
Inbunden, 2021
3614 kr
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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and …
Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception
Inbunden, 2022
2754 kr
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Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the “love stories” in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle's Poetics
Inbunden, 2024
3501 kr
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It is hardly possible to read Aristotle’s Poetics today without acknowledging the influence of its reception history: our understanding of Aristotle’s poetical theory has been reshaped in past decades thanks to a reappraisal of long-held prejudices, whose history may be no less fascinating to …
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2025
3182 kr
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This Companion examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the sixth to the eighteenth-century, while also including excursions into the fine arts and music in modern times. Its eighteen chapters explore the central place of Homer in Byzantine …
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Dido
The Queen of Carthage before, in, and after Virgil
Inbunden, 2026
2537 kr
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This collection of essays brings together senior and junior scholars to explore diverse approaches to Dido, Queen of Carthage, both inside and outside of Virgil’s epic. One of the several thematic threads in this collection of essays is the issue of Dido’s much debated agency both in the Augustan …
