A companion to classical receptions / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardwick, Lorna.

Stray, Christopher.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

xvii, 538 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Classical receptions

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2008.

Contents:

Reception and tradition / Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold

The ancient reception of Homer / Barbara Graziosi

Poets on Socrates' stage : Plato's reception of dramatic art / Chris Emlyn-Jones

Respectable in its ruins : Achaemenid Persia, ancient and modern / Thomas Harrison

Basil of Caesarea and Greek tragedy / Ruth Webb

Our debt to Greece and Rome : canons, class and ideology / Seth L. Schein

Gladstone and the classics / David W. Bebbington

Between colonialism and independence : Eric Williams and the uses of classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s / Emily Greenwood

Virgilian contexts / Stephen Harrison

Colonization, closure or creative dialogue? : the case of Pope's Iliad / David Hopkins

Translation at the intersection of traditions : the Arab reception of the classics / Ahmed Etman

Enough give in it : translating the classical play / J. Michael Walton

Lost in translation? : the problem of (Aristophanic) humour / James Robson

Making it new : André Gide's rewriting of myth / Cashman Kerr Prince

What difference was made? : feminist models of reception / Vanda Zajko

History and theory : Moses and monotheism and the historiography of the repressed / Miriam Leonard

Performance reception : canonization and periodization / Pantelis Michelakis

Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra : 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' receptions of Greek tragedy into opera / Michael Ewans

Performance histories / Fiona Macintosh

'Body and mask' in performances of classical drama on the modern stage / Angeliki Varakis

The nomadic theatre of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio : a case of postdramatic reworking of (the classical) tragedy / Freddy Decreus

Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians / Nurit Yaari

Working with film : theories and methodologies / Joanna Paul

The Odyssey from Homer to NBC : the Cyclops and the gods / Hanna M. Roisman

A new hope : film as a teaching tool for the classics / Marianne McDonald

Possessing Rome : the politics of ruins in Roma capitale / Catharine Edwards

You unleash the tempest of tragedy : the 1903 Athenian production of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Gonda Van Steen

Multicultural reception : Greek drama in South Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries / Betine van Zyl Smit

Putting the class into classical reception / Edith Hall

Reframing the Homeric : images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden / Gregson Davis

Plato's stepchildren : SF and the classics / Sarah Annes Brown

Aristotle's Ethics, old and new / Rosalind Hursthouse

Classicizing bodies in the male photographic tradition / Bryan E. Burns

Homer in British World War One poetry / Elizabeth Vandiver

Reception studies : future prospects / James I. Porter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [482]-532) and index.

ISBN:

9781405151672

1405151676

OCLC:

137244784

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