Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions Of Greece And Rome - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0691089426 ISBN 13: 9780691089423

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2005

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James I. Porter is Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future and The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy.

Contenuti:

List of Illustrations and Table vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction: What Is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity? by James I. Porter 1

Part I: The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism

Chapter 1: "No Greater Marvel": A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos by Susan E. Alcock and John F. Cherry 69

Part II: Classical Innovations

Chapter 2: Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousik by Armand D'Angour 89
Chapter 3: Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens by Yun Lee Too 106

Part III: Baroque Classics

Chapter 4: Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum by Andrew Stewart 127

Part IV Latin Letters

Chapter 5: From into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism John Henderson 173
Chapter 6: The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature by Mario Citroni 204

Part V: Roman Art

Chapter 7: Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past Tonio Hölscher 237
Chapter 8: Classicism in Roman Art by Jas Elsner 270

Part VI: Imperial Prose

Chapter 9: Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism by James I. Porter 301
Chapter 10: Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece by Tim Whitmarsh 353

Coda Looking Back and Beyond

Chapter 11: Athens as the School of Greece by Glenn W. Most 377

Bibliography 389
Contributors 431
Index 433

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0691089426
• ISBN 13: 9780691089423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 466
• Redattore: Porter James I.