Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period /

Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period / / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Jeanine De Landtsheer.

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This volume deals with the question: how did scholars and artists in the early modern period represent, or rather, recreate (Greek and Roman) history? It appears that ancient history was not just studied so as to reconstruct the past, it was used as a way of understanding and legitimizing the presen...

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Superior document:Intersections ; 1
TeilnehmendeR:
Enenkel, Karl A. E.,
Jong, Jan de,
Landtsheer, Jeanine De,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Intersections ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period, Anton Boschloo
  • 2. Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the "Sala di Costantino" in the Vatican Palace, Jan L. de Jong
  • 3. Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae : Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis, Mark Morford
  • 4. Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius's Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582), Karl Enenkel
  • 5. Justus Lipsius's De militia Romana : Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare, Jeanine De Landtsheer
  • 6. "The Grandeur that was Rome": Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius's Admiranda , Marc Laureys
  • 7. Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius, Maria Berbara
  • 8. Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography, Paul J. Smith
  • 9. Plutarch's Lives and Coriolanus : Shakespeare's View of Roman History, Bart Westerweel
  • 10. The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710), Olga van Marion
  • 11. The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller's Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus's Legislation, Sjaak Onderdelinden
  • 12. Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar , Wilfried Stroh
  • 13. The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Arnoud Visser
  • 14. The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck , Francesca Terrenato
  • 15. Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret's Julius Caesar , Jan Bloemendal
  • 16. Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier's La mort de César (1709), Alicia Montoya
  • 17. The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed - Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina , Bettina Noak
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index
  • List of Contributors.

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