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24 produkter
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television
Gender and Politics
Av Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon
Inbunden, 2012
2955 kr
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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have …
Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature
Ergo decipiatur!
Inbunden, 2014
2986 kr
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Right from the beginning, classical literature has been embroiled with questions of authenticity, fakes, frauds, and, of course, scandal. Issues of dubious authorship, and contested authority confront philologists, critics and publishers today as surely as they did in the classical era itself. The …
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600
Av Marice Rose
Inbunden, 2015
3157 kr
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Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek …
Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing
Illustration, Commentary and Performance
Inbunden, 2015
3014 kr
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Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing investigates the Medieval and Early Renaissance reception of Terence in highly innovative ways, combining the diverse but interrelated strands of textual criticism, illustrative tradition, and performance. The plays of Terence seem to have …
Return to Troy
New Essays on the Hollywood Epic
Inbunden, 2015
2922 kr
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Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy, a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad. The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual …
Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature
Heroes and Eagles
Av Lisa Maurice
Inbunden, 2015
3187 kr
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Greece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in …
Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults
Inbunden, 2016
3486 kr
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This volume offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in the literature for youngsters by applying regional perspectives from East-Central and Western Europe, Africa, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States. The title Our Mythical Childhood hints at the elusive and …
Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers
Inbunden, 2016
2838 kr
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The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers addresses the need for an integrated approach to the study and staging of Aeschylus’ plays. It offers an invigorating discussion about the transmission and reception of his plays and explores the interrelated tasks of editing, …
Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal
20th and 21st Century Rewritings of the Antigone Myth
Inbunden, 2017
2429 kr
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Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded …
Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture
Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory
Av Eran Almagor
Inbunden, 2017
2908 kr
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In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, …
Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination
Av Wyger Velema
Inbunden, 2017
2327 kr
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Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, …
Building the Canon through the Classics
Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580)
Av Eloisa Morra
Inbunden, 2019
2472 kr
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Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the construction of a literary canon in Renaissance Italy by exploring the multiple reuses of classical authorities. The volume reshapes current debate on the …
Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film
Agents of Vengeance
Inbunden, 2019
2301 kr
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Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in …
Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture
New Approaches and Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
2016 kr
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This volume represents the first move towards a comprehensive overview of the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. Eschewing a narrow focus on any one theme, it seeks to understand eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity on their own terms, focusing on the contexts, questions, and …
Herakles Inside and Outside the Church
From the first Apologists to the end of the Quattrocento
Av Arlene Allan
Inbunden, 2020
2727 kr
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Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the first Apologists to the Quattrocento explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe. Each chapter takes a particular literary or …
Framing Classical Reception Studies
Different Perspectives on a Developing Field
Inbunden, 2020
2311 kr
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Framing Classical Reception Studies contains a representative number of analytic and synthetic contributions by scholars from diverse parts of the field of Classical Reception Studies. Together, they afford a synoptic view and typology of an extremely large and continuously diversifying discipline. …
Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond
Inbunden, 2020
2485 kr
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The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, raising questions about the hero’s role as model of the …
Modern Hercules
Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Av Alastair J.L. Blanshard, Emma Stafford
Inbunden, 2020
3009 kr
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The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, exploring this complex hero’s transformations of identity and …
Ovid in China
Reception, Translation, and Comparison
Inbunden, 2022
2829 kr
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Ovid in China offers a fresh look at an ancient Roman author in a Chinese context and often from a Chinese perspective. The seventeen essays in this volume, by a group of international scholars, examine Ovid’s interaction with China in a broad historical context, including the arrival of Christian …
Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance
Inbunden, 2023
2656 kr
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This volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcestis - in Brazilian literature and stage performance. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, some of them great names of Brazilian literature, such as Jorge …
Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception
‘Verbalising the Visual and Visualising the Verbal’
Inbunden, 2023
2772 kr
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Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male …
Re-embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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Rooted in a range of approaches to the reception of classical drama, the chapters in this book reflect, in one way or another, that Greek and Roman drama in performance is an ongoing dialogue between the culture(s) of the original and the target culture of its translation/adaptation/performance. …
Hercules Performed
The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2024
2292 kr
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Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, …
Ancient Latin Epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad
Inbunden, 2025
2385 kr
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The Christiad (1535) is a Neo-Latin epic by the Italian Renaissance writer Girolamo Vida, based on the Gospels and written at the behest of Pope Leo X. Long seen as a Christian Aeneid, it emerges in this study as a far more complex work, demonstrating that while Virgil remains the main model, Vida …
