Classics in the Modern World

NOTE EDITORE

Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been involved with issues of democracy, both in political culture and in the greater diffusion of classics in recent times outside the elite classes. By looking at individual case studies from theatre, film, fiction, TV, radio, museums, and popular media, and through area studies that consider trends over time in particular societies, the volume explores the relationship between Greek and Roman ways of thinking and modern definitions of democratic practices and approaches, enabling a wider re-evaluation of the role of ancient Greece and Rome in the modern world.

SOMMARIO

1 - Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning2 - Against the Democratic Turn: Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter- arguments3 - Conflicts of democracy and citizenship: Between the Greek and the Roman Political Legacies4 - The Reception of the Roman-Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa5 - Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue6 - Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the Making of American Civic Identity7 - The Weapon of Oratory8 - Civilization versus Savagery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition9 - Expansion of Tragedy as Critique10 - Investigating American women's engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity, and expanding the circle of 'classicists'11 - The Democratic Turn in (and through) pedagogy: a case study of the Cambridge Latin Course12 - Classics in African Education : the rhetoric of colonial commissions13 - Back to the demos. An 'anti-classical' approach to Classics14 - Can 'Democratic' Stagings of Modern Greek Drama be Authentic?15 - The triumph of demotike: the triumph of Medea16 - Aristophanes in Performance as an all-inclusive event': audience participation and celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy17 - Constructing Bridges for Peace and Tolerance: Ancient Greek Drama on the Israeli Stage18 - The Silence of Eurydice: case study for a 'topology of democracy'19 - Ovidian Metamorphoses in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt20 - Catullus and Lesbia translated in women's historical novels21 - Female Voices: the democratic turn in Ali Smith's classical reception22 - Heroes or Villains: The Gracchi, Reform and the Nineteenth-Century Press23 - Democracy and popular media: classical receptions in 19th and 20th century political cartoons: statesmen, mythological figures and celebrated artworks24 - Practising classical reception studies 'in the round': mass media engagements with antiquity and the 'democratic turn' towards the audience25 - In search of ancient myths: documentaries and the quest for the Homeric World26 - Truth, Justice, and the Spartan Way : Affectations of Democracy in Frank Miller's 30027 - A 'Democratic Turn' at the Ashmolean Museum28 - All Mod Cons: Power, Openness and Text in a Digital Turn29 - Afterword

AUTORE

Lorna Hardwick is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. She has published books and articles on Greek drama and on Greek and Latin poetry and historiography and its reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is editor of the Classical Receptions Journal and co-series editor of the Classical Presences series (OUP). Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199673926
• Collana: Classical Presences
• Dimensioni: 239 x 36.5 x 162 mm Ø 936 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 50 in-text black and white illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 518