A Companion to Classical Receptions

by Editor: Lorna Hardwick (The Open University, UK); Editor: Christopher Stray (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)

• ISBN13: 9780470695753
• ISBN10: 0470695757
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• 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

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 SocratesÆ Stage: PlatoÆs Reception of Dramatic Art

ÆRespectable in its ruinsÆ: 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 GideÆs 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

ÆBody and MaskÆ 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

AristotleÆs 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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