Beyond Greece and Rome Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe

by Grogan, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780198767114
• ISBN10: 0198767110
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-06-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jane Grogan, Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland

Jane Grogan is an Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She is the author of two monographs, Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene (Routledge, 2009) and The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), as well as various journal articles on classical reception, ekphrasis, early modern epic, and Anglo-Ottoman engagements. She has also edited a collection of essays on Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos for Manchester University Press (Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos; 2010) and is currently finishing an edition of William Barker's English translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translation series.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
0. Introduction, Jane Grogan
Part I: Routes of Reception
1. The Well-Thumbed Attic Muse: Cicero and the Reception of Xenophon's Persia in the Early Modern Period, Noreen Humble
2. Zoanne Pencaro, an Early Modern Italian Reader of the Ancient Near East in Herodotus, Dennis Looney
3. From 'Custom is King' to 'Custom is a Metal': The Early Modern Afterlife of Ancient Scythian Culture, Galena Hashhozheva
4. Reading Ancient Fables from the East: Pierre-Daniel Huet's Two-Origin Aetiology of Romance, Su Fang Ng
Part II: Materials and Traces
5. Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers' Accounts, Ladan Niayesh
6. Antiquarianism in the Near East: Thomas Smith (1638 1710) and his Journey to the Seven Churches of Asia, Thomas Roebuck
7. Journeying to an Antique Christian Past: Holy Land Pilgrimage Narratives in the Era of the Reformation, Megan C. Armstrong
Part III: Refiguring Sources
8. Richard Verstegan and the Symbol of Babylon in the Early Modern Period, Deirdre Serjeantson
9. Casting Models: Female Exempla of the Ancient Near East in Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Gallery Books (1642 1662), Derval Conroy
10. Assyria in Early Modern Historiography, Jennifer Sarha
11. Alexander the Great in Early Modern English Drama, Jane Grogan
12. Crises of Self and Succession: Cambyses in the English Theatre 1560 1667, Edith Hall
Bibliography
Index