A Companion to Classical Receptions

by Hardwick, Lorna; Stray, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781444339222
• ISBN10: 1444339222
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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Contributors

Introduction: Making Connections

Reception within Antiquity and Beyond

Reception and Tradition

The Ancient Reception of Homer

Poets on Socrates' Stage: Plato's Reception of Dramatic Art

'Respectable in its ruins': Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern

Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy

Transmission, Acculturation and Critique

'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canons, Class and Ideology

Gladstone on the Classics

Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s

Virgilian Contexts

Translation

Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope's Iliad

Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics

'Enough Give in It': Translating the Classical Play

Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour

Theory and Practice

Making It New: André Gide's Rewriting of Myth

'What Difference Was Made?': Feminist Models of Reception

History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed

Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization

Performing Arts

Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera

Performance Histories

'Body and Mask' in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage

The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy

Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians

Film

Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies

The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods

A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics

Cultural Politics

Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale

'You unleash the tempest of tragedy': The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus' Oresteia

Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first centuries

Putting the Class into Classical Reception

Changing Contexts

Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden

'Plato's Stepchildren': SF and the Classics

Aristotle's Ethics Old and New

Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition

Homer in British World War One Poetry

Reflection and Critique

Reception Studies: Future Prospects

Bibliography

Index

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