Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods / / Silvia Castelli, Ineke Sluiter.

• VerfasserIn: Castelli, Silvia,; Sluiter, Ineke,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sluiter, Ineke,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

General introduction : agents of change / Silvia Castelli -- Mosquitoes, molecules, and megafauna : who and what has agency in human history / J.R. McNeill -- Builders, architects, and the power of context: agents of architectural change in fourth-century-BCE Epidaurus and Delphi / Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant -- Agents of change around the Valley of the Muses / Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf -- Callimachus vs. Conon : competing agents of change for the Lock of Berenice / Brett Evans -- Anonymizing agents of change in philosophical pseudepigraphy : the case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute / Albert Joosse -- Cicero and political agency in late-republican Rome / Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils -- Primus Juvencus and other agents of change in the rise of Christian Latin poetry / Roald Dijkstra -- John Cassian as an agent of change / Nienke Vos -- Greek-Latin translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) : the agents that changed the Humanist translation movement / Annet den Haan -- Erasmus, an unsuspected superspreader of new ancient Greek? / Raf Van Rooy.