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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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.