Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception – serie
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21 produkter
Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History
Av Aaron Turner
Inbunden, 2020
1738 kr
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Cupid and Psyche
The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600
Av Regine May, Stephen J. Harrison
Inbunden, 2020
2086 kr
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Hellenizing Muse
A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present
Av Filippomaria Pontani, Stefan Weise
Inbunden, 2021
2452 kr
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Masons and the Mysteries in 18th Century Drama
Three Masonic Comedies: Pierre Clément, Les Fri-maçons; Carlo Goldoni, Le Donne Curiose; Francesco Griselini, I Liberi Muratori
Inbunden, 2019
2060 kr
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The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to bolster this claim and how the creative …
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Av Colin Burrow, Stephen J. Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1867 kr
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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional …
Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism
Aspects of a Transcultural Movement
Av Martin Vöhler, Stella Alekou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2042 kr
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Key aspects of philhellenism – political self-determination, freedom, beauty, individual greatness – originate in antiquity and present a complex reception history. The force of European philhellenism derives from ancient Roman idealizations, which have been drawn on by European movements since the …
Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe
Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)
Av Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2042 kr
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Nationalism, Racism, and Ancient History
Historiography and Uses of the Past in Interwar Europe (1918–1939)
Av Emilio Zucchetti, Andrea Avalli
Inbunden, 2027
2568 kr
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Between the two World Wars, many European countries propagated nationalist and racist narratives based on idealized images of a distant past. The role of ancient history (both as a scientific discipline and as a repository of figures, places, people) in the elaboration of these narratives in …
Class and Classics
Subalterns and the Production of Classical Culture
Av Michele Bellomo, Anna Maria Cimino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2028
2890 kr
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The volume offers a study of Antiquity in a dialectic, wide social perspective, stressing the role of popular classes as active producers of culture, while reflecting upon the scientific and ideological influence of contemporary social issues on academic investigations of the ancient world.The …
Classical Reception
New Challenges in a Changing World
Av Anastasia Bakogianni, Luis Unceta Gómez
Inbunden, 2024
3166 kr
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In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover …
Cupid and Psyche
The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600
Av Regine May, Stephen J. Harrison
Häftad, 2022
430 kr
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Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, …
Wisdom from Rome
Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato
Inbunden, 2022
1801 kr
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Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History
Av Aaron Turner
Häftad, 2022
382 kr
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The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern …
Tools, Techniques, and Technologies
Essays on Ancient Science and its Reception in Honour of Liba Taub
Av Laurence Totelin, Emma Perkins
Inbunden, 2025
2385 kr
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Ancient scholars deployed innovative tools and techniques, both material (e.g., sundials and astrolabes) and literary or rhetorical, to interrogate and communicate knowledge of the natural world in fields such as astronomy, botany, medicine. Exploring these tools and techniques of ancient science …
Hellenizing Muse
A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present
Av Filippomaria Pontani, Stefan Weise
Häftad, 2023
466 kr
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Wisdom from Rome
Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe
Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)
Av Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
273 kr
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Latin Lineages
A Family Tree from Catullus to Today
Av Regine May, Catherine Conybeare
Inbunden, 2025
2139 kr
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This book traces lineages of intertextuality and reception between Latin poets of the first century BC with prose authors of the second century BC and their later reception in English literature. The authors of each chapter explore how writers like Catullus or Vergil, Horace or Apuleius engage …
Vergil and the Land
Av Annemarie de Villiers, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1783 kr
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Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the agricultural, the metaphysical and the creative. In both Augustan Rome and contemporary Southern Africa, the land question is ever present in the art and literature which engage with …
Philosophical Readings of Virgil
Av Sergio Casali, Giampiero Scafoglio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1535 kr
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The philosophical background of Virgil’s works has been studied with different positions and conclusions since Antiquity, and has provided inspiration and suggestions that have stimulated innovative developments through the ages. This book explores the philosophical – and often ‘creative’ – …
»Orbecche«
A Tragedy in Five Acts, 1541
Av Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Donald Allen Beecher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1623 kr
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Giraldi, in his trend-setting tragedy, Orbecche, first produced in 1541, sought to create a stage-worthy play while honouring the conventions of Seneca and well as the principles of Aristotle and Horace. Yet he found himself defending his choices in his Discorso through novel interpretations of …
