A Companion to Classical Receptions (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

by Lorna Hardwick (Editor), Christopher Stray (Editor)

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Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. * Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics * Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices * Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion * Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics

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Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. * Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics * Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices * Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion * Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 Nov 2010
ISBN 10: 1444339222
ISBN 13: 9781444339222

Media Reviews

This variegated and sizeable volume has for me been stimulating and informative, a pleasure to read for review ... The 'future paths' he proposes seem to me to amount to different configurations of intellectual history, so no surprises there; but his clear statement of the opportunities offered by reception studies in the classroom is admirable, and his call for 'a new kind of classicist-academic: the engaged public intellectual' is visionary. (Translation and Literature, 2011)

Author Bio

Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie) Classics in Post-colonial Worlds (2007). Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Classics Transformed: Schools Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor of The Owl of Minerva (2005), Classical Books (2007) and Remaking the Classics (2007).