When worlds elide : classics, politics, culture / edited by Karen Bassi and J. Peter Euben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bassi, Karen.

Euben, J. Peter.

Series:

Greek studies

Greek studies : interdisciplinary approaches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Civilization.

Greece.

Civilization.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Politics and literature--Greece.

Politics and literature.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]

Summary:

When Worlds Elide responds to the various incarnations of "the Greek" legacy that continues to mark our politics, our society, and our education. It offers both an elaboration of these incarnations and a critique of how they are understood and used politically, culturally, theoretically, and pedagogically.

Contents:

Origins, culture, and identity in classical antiquity / Carla Antonaccio

Greece of the east : philhellenism in imperial Japan / Noriko Aso

Philhellenism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism / Glenn W. Most

The materiality of classical studies / James I. Porter

Making Prometheus speak : dialogue, torture, and the power of secrets in Prometheus bound / Karen Bassi

For love of the impossible : Antigone, memory, and the politics of possibility / P. J. Brendese

Athens' tale of two cities : Themistocles, Theseus, and the construction of "place" in fifth-century Athens / Carol Dougherty

Thucydides in Baghdad / J. Peter Euben

Before race : theorizing Athenian citizen identity / Susan Lape

Comedy, the ordinary citizen, and the salvation of the city / John Zumbrunnen

Gender and the city : Antigone from Hegel to Butler and back / Peter Burian

The comparative politics of travel : theôria, talab al-'ilm and the search for knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben

Socrates, Palamedes, and the trials of philosophy / Diskin Clay

Body, soul, and medical analogy in Plato / Brooke Holmes

"Men completely wild in appearance and way of life : fauns, satyrs, androgynes, ichtyophages, hippopodes, sciopodes, himantipodes, [and] cyclopes" / Vanita Seth

Suppliant women and the democratic state : white men saving brown women from brown men / Victoria Wohl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739122747

0739122746

9780739122754

0739122754

OCLC:

491901237