Classical Pasts The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome / Edited by James I Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, James I., szerk.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

klasszika-filológia--tanulmányok.

klasszika-filológia.

klasszikus irodalom.

művészettörténet--római--ókor.

művészettörténet.

művészettörténet--görög--ókor.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton University Press 2006

Language Note:

Angol nyelvű tanulmányok latin szemelvényekkel

Summary:

The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term. The book seeks not to arrive at a final definition, but rather to provide a cultural history of the concept by exploring how the meanings of "classical" have been created, recreated, and rejected over time. The book asks questions that have been nearly absent from the scholarly literature. Does "classical" refer to a specific period of history or to the artistic products of that time? How has its definition changed? Did those who lived in classical times have some understanding of what the term "classical" has meant? How coherent, consistent, or even justified is the term? The book's introduction provides a generous theoretical and historical overview. It is followed by eleven chapters in which the contributors argue for the existence not of a single classical past, but of multiple, competing classical pasts. The essays address a broad range of topics--Homer and early Greek poetry and music, Isocrate, Hellenistic and Roman art, Cicero and Greek philosophy, the history of Latin literature, imperial Greek literature, and more. The most up-to-date and challenging treatment of the topic available, this collection will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of ancient and modern literature, art, and cultural history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations and Table

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. What Is “Classical” about Classical Antiquity?

Part I. The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism

Chapter 1. “No Greater Marvel”: A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos

Part II. Classical Innovations

Chapter 2. Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousike

Chapter 3. Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens

Part III. Baroque Classics

Chapter 4. Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum

Part IV. Latin Letters

Chapter 5. From ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism

Chapter 6. The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature

Part V. Roman Art

Chapter 7. Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past

Chapter 8. Classicism in Roman Art

Part VI. Imperial Prose

Chapter 9. Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism

Chapter 10. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece

Coda. Looking Back and Beyond

Chapter 11. Athens as the School of Greece

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-430) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691089423

0691089426

OCLC:

1273306430