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Our Lady of Pompeii
Ruins, Religion, and Memory
Inbunden, 2026
420 kr
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In the 1870s, an Italian lawyer named Bartolo Longo began building a shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary next to the ruined ancient city of Pompeii. Over the following decades, this shrine grew into one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites in Italy, with a whole new city developing around …
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Av Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Häftad, 2015
1092 kr
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For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own …
Son of Classics and Comics
Inbunden, 2015
2827 kr
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Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer. Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. Son of Classics and Comics explores that …
Son of Classics and Comics
Av George Kovacs, C. W. Marshall
Häftad, 2015
766 kr
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Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer. Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. Son of Classics and Comics explores that …
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past
Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although they were among the most sought-after and …
Restorations of Empire in Africa
Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies
Inbunden, 2024
1648 kr
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; …
Black Cicero
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2026
2058 kr
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Black Cicero examines the black American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois's lifelong engagement with the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. To Du Bois, Cicero's life and his opposition to Caesar provided a foundational example of anti-tyrannical thought and action, a tradition of which he …
Apuleius in European Literature
Cupid and Psyche since 1650
Av Stephen Harrison, Regine May
Inbunden, 2024
2186 kr
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines …
Fragmentary Modernism
The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936
Inbunden, 2023
1385 kr
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Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emerged hand in hand with a series of paradigm-shifting developments in classical scholarship, which brought an unprecedented number of fragmentary texts …
Homer in Wittenberg
Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer
Inbunden, 2022
1364 kr
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Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Reformation in Wittenberg. In the first study of Melanchthon's Homer annotations from three different periods spanning his career, and the …
Aristophanes in Britain
Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2023
1533 kr
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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising …
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2025
1467 kr
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an …
The Living Death of Antiquity
Neoclassical Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and …
Ovid in French
Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Inbunden, 2023
1533 kr
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This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception studies, and to offer a wider …
Antígonas
Writing from Latin America
Inbunden, 2023
2688 kr
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Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical …
Minos and the Moderns
Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Inbunden, 2008
1704 kr
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Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedelus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by …
Romantic Antiquity
Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832
Inbunden, 2010
2336 kr
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While scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman literature and history expressed by many preeminent British cultural figures of the early and middle-eighteenth century, they have only sparingly commented on the increasingly vexed role Rome played during the subsequent Romantic period. …
Sophocles' Antigone in Early Modern English Drama
Inbunden, 2027
1812 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive account of the reception of Sophocles' Antigone in early modern English drama, with particular attention to Thomas Watson's Latin translation of the play and Thomas May's first extant adaptation in English. Despite the tradition of other female tragic …
English Verse in Classical Metres
Pagan Poetry, 1860–1930
Av Orla Polten
Inbunden, 2026
1451 kr
Kommande
English Verse in Classical Metres: Pagan Poetry, 1860–1930 examines a paradox in the history of poetry: why did so many poets attempt to write English verse in the quantitative metres of Ancient Greek and Latin precisely when free verse was reshaping poetic form? What was at stake in these …
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
Inbunden, 2018
3232 kr
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Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of never-before-printed English translations from ancient Greek and Latin verse and drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transcribed and …
Conversing with Antiquity
English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope
Häftad, 2014
735 kr
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Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies of the reception of the classics by English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by one of the leading scholars in the field. A new Introduction locates the book's investigations within the context …
Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
Av Andrei Pop
Inbunden, 2015
2173 kr
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The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged European assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution caused by translations of Greek tragedy. Art of the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries dealt with the violence and …
Lucretius and the Early Modern
Av David Norbrook, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2863 kr
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed …
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Häftad, 2014
1172 kr
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, as well as the long …
Stage of Emergency
Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974
Inbunden, 2014
1730 kr
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This volume offers a critique of cultural and intellectual life in Greece during the dictatorship of 1967-1974, discussing how Greek playwrights, directors, and actors reconceived the role of culture in a state of crisis and engaged with questions of theater's relationship to politics and …
Pater the Classicist
Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Av Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1894 kr
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater …
Women Classical Scholars
Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
Av Rosie Wyles, Rosie Wyles m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
3442 kr
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles …
Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity
Av LEONARD BILLINGS, Joshua Billings m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2810 kr
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From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphysical, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and psychological questions. As a major concern of modern philosophy, it has fascinated thinkers …
The Protean Virgil
Material Form and the Reception of the Classics
Inbunden, 2015
1976 kr
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The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand how and why different readers have responded differently to the same text over time, we should take into account the physical form in which they read the text as well as the text itself. Using Virgil's poetry as a case study in book history, …
The Senecan Aesthetic
A Performance History
Av Helen Slaney
Inbunden, 2015
3232 kr
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Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. The Senecan Aesthetic surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been staged, from the …
