Classical Pasts : : The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome /

Classical Pasts : : The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome / / ed. by James I. Porter.

The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current und...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alcock, Susan E.,
Cherry, John F.,
Citroni, Mario,
D’Angour, Armand,
Elsner, Jas,
Henderson, John,
Hölscher, Tonio,
Most, Glenn W.,
Porter, James I.,
Stewart, Andrew,
Too, Yun Lee,
Whitmarsh, Tim,
HerausgeberIn:
Porter, James I.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (465 p.) :; 39 halftones. 2 line illus. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Table
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. What Is “Classical” about Classical Antiquity?
  • Part I. The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism
  • Chapter 1. “No Greater Marvel”: A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos
  • Part II. Classical Innovations
  • Chapter 2. Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousike
  • Chapter 3. Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens
  • Part III. Baroque Classics
  • Chapter 4. Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum
  • Part IV. Latin Letters
  • Chapter 5. From ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism
  • Chapter 6. The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature
  • Part V. Roman Art
  • Chapter 7. Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past
  • Chapter 8. Classicism in Roman Art
  • Part VI. Imperial Prose
  • Chapter 9. Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism
  • Chapter 10. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece
  • Coda. Looking Back and Beyond
  • Chapter 11. Athens as the School of Greece
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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