The classical heritage in France / / edited by Gerald Sandy.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 109
• TeilnehmendeR: Sandy, Gerald N.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 588 pages) :; illustrations

This book, written by eighteen specialists, deals with the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended for those interested in classical influences on French belles-lettres and visual arts. Readers will benefit from the comprehensive surveys provided by specialists on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, Jacques Amyot's contribution to the reinvention of the novel in the West and the influence of ancient law in France. Major literary genres and themes, philosophy, major writers, early French humanists and Hellenists and the visual arts all receive detailed, up-to-date treatment. Contributors include: Olga Augustinos, Alain Billault, Jean Braybrook, Paola Cifarelli, Michèle Ducos, Sue Farquhar, Philip Ford, A. Trevor Hodge, George Huppert, Gillian Jondorf, John Parkin, Laurence Plazenet, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ofelia Salgado, Gerald Sandy, Alison Saunders, Douglas Thomson, and Valerie Worth-Stylianou.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gerald Sandy -- Introduction / Gerald Sandy -- Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550-1800 / Olga Augustinos -- France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts / Ofelia N. Salgado -- Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France / Gerald Sandy -- Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study / Gerald Sandy -- Erasmus and Paris / Douglas F.S. Thomson -- Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance / Valerie Worth-Stylianou -- François Rabelais / John Parkin -- Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse / Sue W. Farquhar -- Plutarch's Lives / Alain Billault -- Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel / Laurence Plazenet -- Under the Shadow of Socrates / George Huppert -- Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Michèle Ducos -- \'On the Sublime\' / Alain Billault -- Classical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France / Philip Ford -- The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France / Jean Braybrook -- The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry / Patricia Rosenmeyer -- Fables: Aesop and Babrius / Paola Cifarelli -- Drama / Gillian Jondorf -- The Classical Heritage in French Architecture / A. Trevor Hodge -- Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage / Alison Saunders -- Bibliography / Gerald Sandy -- Index of Names / Gerald Sandy -- General Index / Gerald Sandy.