Classical Inter/faces – serie
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Lucretius in the Modern World
Av W.R. Johnson
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things", one of the glories of Latin literature, provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was …
Plato's Progeny
How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind
Av Melissa Lane
Häftad, 2001
447 kr
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Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a …
Pity Transformed
Inbunden, 2001
674 kr
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"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and …
Translating Words, Translating Cultures
Av Lorna Hardwick, Susanna Braund
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Never have there been so many different types of translations of Greek and Latin literature into English. Most people experience Homer and Greek tragedy for the first time through translations. New versions of Vergil and Ovid have become best sellers. This book examines the literary and cultural …
Radical Theatre
Greek Tragedy in the Modern World
Inbunden, 2003
463 kr
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Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape …
Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth
Av Lillian Doherty, Susanna Braund
Häftad, 2001
463 kr
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Myths reflect, reinforce, and sometimes subvert gender ideologies and so have an influence in the 'real world'. This is true in the present no less than when the Greek and Roman myths were created. The struggles to redefine gender roles and identities in our own time are inevitably reflected in our …
Celebrity in Antiquity
From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens
Av Robert Garland, Susanna Braund
Häftad, 2006
415 kr
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What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and colourful self-promoters ever to have lived, including …
Tragic Idea
Av Vassilis Lambropoulos, Paul Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
403 kr
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This radical series shows how Classical ideas and material have helped to shape the modern world. The interdisciplinary approach makes stimulating reading for all who welcome the challenge offered by new perspectives on Classical culture. Today we attribute a tragic quality to many things - works, …
Performance and Cure
Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America
Av Karelisa V. Hartigan, Susanna Braund
Häftad, 2009
415 kr
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In this fascinating addition to the "Classical Inter/faces" series, Karelisa Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the …
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
Av Stephen Harrison, Paul Cartledge
Häftad, 2018
562 kr
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The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the …
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
Av Stephen Harrison, Susanna Braund
Inbunden, 2017
2290 kr
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The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the …
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
E-bok, 2017
596 kr
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The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the …
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
E-bok, 2017
592 kr
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The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the …
Nation, Empire, Decline
Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era
E-bok, 2013
450 kr
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The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templates for these ''modern'' …
Figuratively Speaking
Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
Av Sarah Spence
E-bok, 2013
440 kr
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Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western …
Figuratively Speaking
Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers
Av Sarah Spence
E-bok, 2013
440 kr
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Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western …
Tragic Idea
Av Vassilis Lambropoulos, Paul Cartledge m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
427 kr
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This radical series shows how Classical ideas and material have helped to shape the modern world. The interdisciplinary approach makes stimulating reading for all who welcome the challenge offered by new perspectives on Classical culture. Today we attribute a tragic quality to many things - works, …
Tragic Idea
Av Vassilis Lambropoulos, Paul Cartledge m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This radical series shows how Classical ideas and material have helped to shape the modern world. The interdisciplinary approach makes stimulating reading for all who welcome the challenge offered by new perspectives on Classical culture. Today we attribute a tragic quality to many things - works, …
Performance and Cure
Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America
E-bok, 2013
440 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the …
Performance and Cure
Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America
E-bok, 2013
440 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the …
Delusions of Invulnerability
Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece,China and Today
Av G.E.R. Lloyd
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they …
Delusions of Invulnerability
Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece,China and Today
Av G.E.R. Lloyd
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they …
Nation, Empire, Decline
Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era
E-bok, 2013
450 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templates for these ''modern'' …
