The Legacy Of Antiquity
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The Legacy Of Antiquity
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Author : Lenia Kouneni
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
The Legacy Of Antiquity written by Lenia Kouneni and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Art categories.
Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity. Classical Reception Studies is a rapidly developing field of research and teaching, and a growing number of new scholars are investigating issues of reception of classical texts, ideas, performance, and material culture across different cultural contexts and in different media. This volume adds new perspectives in this growing field of scholarship. This collection of essays explores the uses of the past from a wide range of perspectives. The papers are drawn from a spectrum of cultures and chronological periods; from medieval to modern times, from Italian to Byzantine, from French to British. The characters involved in each case study accessed the past through different means, employing varying combinations of texts, oral traditions, iconographic representations, and visible remains of the landscape. It is a snapshot of a field in movement, illustrative of current directions and hopeful of producing new ones. The legacy of antiquity is omnipresent, and is as multifaceted as suggested by the wide range of the papers. This volume presents new perspectives, dealing with ever-elusive enigmas and opening the way for future research and investigation to all those who seek to explore the constant fascination with the antique.
Antiquity Recovered
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Author : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2007
Antiquity Recovered written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
'Antiquity Recovered' presents 13 diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. They range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in classic films.
Alexandrea Ad Aegyptum
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Author : Rogério Sousa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Alexandrea Ad Aegyptum written by Rogério Sousa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Alexandria (Egypt) categories.
Race
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Author : Denise Eileen McCoskey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Race written by Denise Eileen McCoskey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Social Science categories.
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race - and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern - across epic, tragedy and the novel. Ranging from Theocritus to Toni Morrison, and from Tacitus and Pliny to Bernal's seminal study Black Athena, this is a powerful and original new assessment.
The Art Of The Body
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Author : Michael Squire
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-03-24
The Art Of The Body written by Michael Squire and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-24 with Art categories.
The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art history.
Luck Fate And Fortune
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Author : Esther Eidinow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Luck Fate And Fortune written by Esther Eidinow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fate and fatalism categories.
The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi. But the Delphic Oracle is only the best-known example from a landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across the literary genres of antiquity there are myriad tales - such as that of doom.
Luck Fate And Fortune
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Author : Lecturer in Ancient History Esther Eidinow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Luck Fate And Fortune written by Lecturer in Ancient History Esther Eidinow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with categories.
The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinows lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of classical notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era. Perhaps themost famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi. Delphi is still invoked when business people today discuss future strategy and risk; there is even a strategic planning technique called the Delphi Method. But the Delphic Oracle is only the best known example from a landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across the literary genres of antiquity there are myriad tales - such as that of doomed Oedipus - which wrestle with the cruel vicissitudes of fate and fortune.Exploring some of the key ideas of ancient Greek culture that resonate with modern conceptions of destiny and the future, Esther Eidinow examines the ancients notion of luck as a means to explain daily experiences and ultimate agency. Focusing on writers such as Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes, she demonstrates how concepts of fate in antiquity changed over time, in response to social and political currents. Drawing also on modern cultural texts like Lawrence of Arabia and Terminator 2, the author shows how the recurring questions what if? and why me? are fundamental to the human relationship with anuncertain future, whether in the ancient past or the present day.
The Legacy Of Apollo
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Author : Jamie Claire Fumo
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Legacy Of Apollo written by Jamie Claire Fumo and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'The wonderful breadth of Jamie Fumo's engaging examination of classical forms in the Middle Ages offers valuable new interpretations of Chaucer's work and rare -insight into medieval tropes of narrative authority.'-Suzanne Yeager, Department of English, Fordham University --
Slavery
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Author : Page DuBois
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Slavery written by Page DuBois and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Social Science categories.
'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable human right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by contrast, the concepts of freedom and equality had little purchase. Athenians, Spartans and Romans all possessed slaves or helots (unfree bondsmen), and society was unequal at every stratum. Why, then, if modern society abominates slavery, does what antiquity thought about serfdom matter today? Page duBois shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive and well in the contemporary era. Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome but also with Californian labour factories and south Asian sweatshops, while young women and children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. Applying such modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) to slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence and Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, famous leader of a Roman slave rebellion, and relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to a globalized world of rampant corporatism and exploitative capitalism.
The Classical World
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Author : Nigel Spivey
language : en
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Release Date : 2017-08-15
The Classical World written by Nigel Spivey and has been published by Pegasus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with History categories.
A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centered on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilization. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilization, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, Classical science and philosophy, the eastward export of Greek culture with the conquests of Alexander the Great, the power and spread of the Roman imperium, and the long Byzantine twilight of Antiquity.
