A companion to classical receptions / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray

Published:: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.
Physical Description:: xvii, 538 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Additional Creators:: Hardwick, Lorna and Stray, Christopher

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Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Contents:

Reception and tradition / Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold -- The ancient reception of Homer / Barbara Graziosi -- Poets on Socrates' stage : Plato's reception of dramatic art / Chris Emlyn-Jones -- Respectable in its ruins : Achaemenid Persia, ancient and modern / Thomas Harrison -- Basil of Caesarea and Greek tragedy / Ruth Webb -- Our debt to Greece and Rome : canons, class and ideology / Seth L. Schein -- Gladstone and the classics / David W. Bebbington -- Between colonialism and independence : Eric Williams and the uses of classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s / Emily Greenwood -- Virgilian contexts / Stephen Harrison -- Colonization, closure or creative dialogue? : the case of Pope's Iliad / David Hopkins -- Translation at the intersection of traditions : the Arab reception of the classics / Ahmed Etman -- Enough give in it : translating the classical play / J. Michael Walton -- Lost in translation? : the problem of (Aristophanic) humour / James Robson -- Making it new : André Gide's rewriting of myth / Cashman Kerr Prince -- What difference was made? : feminist models of reception / Vanda Zajko -- History and theory : Moses and monotheism and the historiography of the repressed / Miriam Leonard -- Performance reception : canonization and periodization / Pantelis Michelakis -- Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra : 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' receptions of Greek tragedy into opera / Michael Ewans -- Performance histories / Fiona Macintosh -- 'Body and mask' in performances of classical drama on the modern stage / Angeliki Varakis -- The nomadic theatre of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio : a case of postdramatic reworking of (the classical) tragedy / Freddy Decreus -- Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians / Nurit Yaari -- Working with film : theories and methodologies / Joanna Paul -- The Odyssey from Homer to NBC : the Cyclops and the gods / Hanna M. Roisman -- A new hope : film as a teaching tool for the classics / Marianne McDonald -- Possessing Rome : the politics of ruins in Roma capitale / Catharine Edwards -- You unleash the tempest of tragedy : the 1903 Athenian production of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Gonda Van Steen -- Multicultural reception : Greek drama in South Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries / Betine van Zyl Smit -- Putting the class into classical reception / Edith Hall -- Reframing the Homeric : images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden / Gregson Davis -- Plato's stepchildren : SF and the classics / Sarah Annes Brown -- Aristotle's Ethics, old and new / Rosalind Hursthouse -- Classicizing bodies in the male photographic tradition / Bryan E. Burns -- Homer in British World War One poetry / Elizabeth Vandiver -- Reception studies : future prospects / James I. Porter.

Subject(s):

Classical literature—History and criticism

ISBN:

9781405151672 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1405151676 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [482]-532) and index.

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