Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods : Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation / edited by Silvia Castelli and Ineke Sluiter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castelli, Silvia, 1973- editor.

Sluiter, I. (Ineke), editor.

Series:

Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation ; Volume 4.

Euhormos ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diffusion of innovations--Greece--History--To 1500.

Diffusion of innovations.

Diffusion of innovations--Rome--History--To 1500.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Civilization, Medieval.

Civilization, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"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 innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004680012

9004680012