Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII / / edited by James Ker, Christoph Pieper ; Karen Bassi [and nineteen others], contributors.
The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and mater...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne Supplements, Volume 369 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
Volume 369. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (557 p.) |
| Notes: | Papers presented at the Penn Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values VII, entitled "Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity," Leiden University, June, 15-16, 2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / James Ker and Christoph Pieper
- General Introduction: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity / James Ker and Christoph Pieper
- Pelasgians and Leleges: Using the Past to Understand the Present / Jeremy McInerney
- The Egyptian Past in the Roman Present / Maaike Leemreize
- The Roman Suburbium and the Roman Past / Joseph Farrell
- Burnt Temples in the Landscape of the Past / Margaret M. Miles
- Keimêlia in Context: Toward an Understanding of the Value of Antiquities in the Past / Amanda S. Reiterman
- Croesus’ Offerings and the Value of the Past in Herodotus’ Histories / Karen Bassi
- The Creation of Anachronism: Assessing Ancient Valor in Sophocles’ Ajax / Sheila Murnaghan
- Long Ago and Far Away … The Uses of the Past in Tacitus’ Minora / Christina S. Kraus
- M. Atilius Regulus—Making Defeat into Victory: Diverse Values in an Ambivalent Story / Eleanor Winsor Leach
- Agrippina the Younger: Tacitus’ Unicum Exemplum / Caitlin C. Gillespie
- Si te nostra tulissent saecula: Comparison with the Past as a Means of Glorifying the Present in Domitianic Panegyric / Lisa Cordes
- The Value of the Past Challenged: Myth and Ancient History in the Attic Orators / Jonas Grethlein
- Archaizing and Classicism in the Literary Historical Thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Lawrence Kim
- The Attic Muse and the Asian Harlot: Classicizing Allegories in Dionysius and Longinus / Casper C. de Jonge
- From Lesbos She Took Her Honeycomb: Sappho and the ‘Female Tradition’ in Hellenistic Poetry / Mieke de Vos
- Ennius and the Revaluation of Traditional Historiography in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura / Jason S. Nethercut
- Valuing the Mediators of Antiquity in the Noctes Atticae / Joseph A. Howley
- Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity by Means of Allegoresis / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
- Indexes / James Ker and Christoph Pieper.