Classics for all : reworking antiquity in mass culture / edited by Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowe, Dunstan.

Shahabudin, Kim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities in popular culture--Congresses.

Antiquities in popular culture.

Popular culture--Classical influences--Congresses.

Popular culture.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Classical culture belongs to us all: whether as academic subject or as entertainment, it constantly stimulates new ideas. In recent years, following Gladiator's successful revival of the 'toga epic', studies of the ancient world in cinema have drawn increasing attention from authors and readers. This collection builds on current interest in this topic, taking its readers past the usual boundaries of classical reception studies into less familiar-and even uncharted-areas of ancient Greece and ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Papers from a conference held at University of Reading, April 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-03567-3

9786612035678

1-4438-0430-4

OCLC:

815768827