Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods / / Silvia Castelli, Ineke Sluiter.
"Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the 'superspreader' of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Brill,, 2023. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | General introduction : agents of change / Mosquitoes, molecules, and megafauna : who and what has agency in human history / Builders, architects, and the power of context: agents of architectural change in fourth-century-BCE Epidaurus and Delphi / Agents of change around the Valley of the Muses / Callimachus vs. Conon : competing agents of change for the Lock of Berenice / Anonymizing agents of change in philosophical pseudepigraphy : the case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute / Cicero and political agency in late-republican Rome / Primus Juvencus and other agents of change in the rise of Christian Latin poetry / John Cassian as an agent of change / Greek-Latin translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) : the agents that changed the Humanist translation movement / Erasmus, an unsuspected superspreader of new ancient Greek? / |
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Summary: | "Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the 'superspreader' of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation"-- |
ISBN: | 9004680012 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Silvia Castelli, Ineke Sluiter. |