Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII / edited by James Ker, Christoph Pieper ; Karen Bassi [and nineteen others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ker, James, 1970- editor.

Pieper, Christoph, editor.

Bassi, Karen, contributor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 369.

Mnemosyne Supplements, 0169-8958 ; Volume 369

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values--Greece--Philosophy--Congresses.

Values.

Values--Rome--Philosophy--Congresses.

History--Philosophy--Congresses.

History.

Time perception--Congresses.

Time perception.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Rome--Civilization--Congresses.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past from approximately the fifth century BCE until the second century CE. It examines how specific communities used notions of antiquity to define themselves or others, which models from the past proved most desirable, what literary or exegetic modes they employed, and how temporal systems for ascribing value intersected with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the application of aesthetic criteria.

Contents:

Front Matter / James Ker and Christoph Pieper

General Introduction: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity / James Ker and Christoph Pieper

Pelasgians and Leleges: Using the Past to Understand the Present / Jeremy McInerney

The Egyptian Past in the Roman Present / Maaike Leemreize

The Roman Suburbium and the Roman Past / Joseph Farrell

Burnt Temples in the Landscape of the Past / Margaret M. Miles

Keimêlia in Context: Toward an Understanding of the Value of Antiquities in the Past / Amanda S. Reiterman

Croesus’ Offerings and the Value of the Past in Herodotus’ Histories / Karen Bassi

The Creation of Anachronism: Assessing Ancient Valor in Sophocles’ Ajax / Sheila Murnaghan

Long Ago and Far Away … The Uses of the Past in Tacitus’ Minora / Christina S. Kraus

M. Atilius Regulus—Making Defeat into Victory: Diverse Values in an Ambivalent Story / Eleanor Winsor Leach

Agrippina the Younger: Tacitus’ Unicum Exemplum / Caitlin C. Gillespie

Si te nostra tulissent saecula: Comparison with the Past as a Means of Glorifying the Present in Domitianic Panegyric / Lisa Cordes

The Value of the Past Challenged: Myth and Ancient History in the Attic Orators / Jonas Grethlein

Archaizing and Classicism in the Literary Historical Thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Lawrence Kim

The Attic Muse and the Asian Harlot: Classicizing Allegories in Dionysius and Longinus / Casper C. de Jonge

From Lesbos She Took Her Honeycomb: Sappho and the ‘Female Tradition’ in Hellenistic Poetry / Mieke de Vos

Ennius and the Revaluation of Traditional Historiography in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura / Jason S. Nethercut

Valuing the Mediators of Antiquity in the Noctes Atticae / Joseph A. Howley

Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity by Means of Allegoresis / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli

Indexes / James Ker and Christoph Pieper.

Notes:

Papers presented at the Penn Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values VII, entitled "Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity," Leiden University, June, 15-16, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27495-2

OCLC:

881367779

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004274952 DOI