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Our Lady Of Pompeii - Ruins, Religion, And Memory

by Jessica (Senior Lecturer In Classical Studies, Senior Lecturer In Classical Studies, The Open University) Hughes

~~40,56€~~ 36,50€ 10% OFF

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 Our Lady of Pompeii tells the story of the Catholic shrine in the new town of Pompeii, located next to the archaeological excavations. It primarily focuses on the main period of the shrine's growth from 1876â€"1890, and shows how the ruined city of Pompeii became part of the shrine's identity, inspiring artists, writers, and pilgrims alike.
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Modernist Women And The Greek Chorus

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 This book explores the engagement of women writers and intellectuals at the beginning of the twentieth century with Greek tragedy--especially its central and enigmatic feature, the chorus--and the ways it shaped their experimental scholarship, fiction, and verse.
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Richard Aldington'S Modernist Antiquity - Classics, Imagism, And The Great War

by Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics, Emerita, Whitman College) Vandiver

~~113,56€~~ 102,20€ 10% OFF

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 This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator who was a central figure in London literary culture of the 1910s and 1920s. It focuses on Aldington's classical receptions--that is, his use of images, themes, and topics from Classical Greek and Roman literature.
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Revivals Of Classical Drama In Greece And Spain (1860s-1970s) - Theatre In The Realm Of Ideology

by Vasileios Balaskas

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on social or artistic influences and interconnections. In particular, the Spanish and Greek cases developed in parallel and addressed similar sociopolitical concepts, while the Italian example served as a model for their theatrical tradition in the first decades of the twentieth century. In theatrical terms, this book argues that the repertoire and orientation of classical drama were influenced by (inter)national artistic trends, while power relations among theatrical directors, actors and actresses, companies, and institutions determined the course of these artistic traditions. Staging classical drama in Greece and Spain transformed Graeco-Roman venues into sociopolitical powerhouses that generated collective narratives, theatrical modernization, and economic development. Despite the distinct degree of ideological engagement with classical culture, political conditions in Greece and Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offer a space for reflection and critical comparison. In this context, this study discusses how historical realities led to the staging of classical drama at Graeco-Roman venues and how each country appropriated and showcased this classical heritage as sociopolitical capital.
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Revivals Of Classical Drama In Greece And Spain (1860s-1970s) - Theatre In The Realm Of Ideology

by Vasileios Balaskas

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on social or artistic influences and interconnections. In particular, the Spanish and Greek cases developed in parallel and addressed similar sociopolitical concepts, while the Italian example served as a model for their theatrical tradition in the first decades of the twentieth century. In theatrical terms, this book argues that the repertoire and orientation of classical drama were influenced by (inter)national artistic trends, while power relations among theatrical directors, actors and actresses, companies, and institutions determined the course of these artistic traditions. Staging classical drama in Greece and Spain transformed Graeco-Roman venues into sociopolitical powerhouses that generated collective narratives, theatrical modernization, and economic development. Despite the distinct degree of ideological engagement with classical culture, political conditions in Greece and Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offer a space for reflection and critical comparison. In this context, this study discusses how historical realities led to the staging of classical drama at Graeco-Roman venues and how each country appropriated and showcased this classical heritage as sociopolitical capital.
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Catullus In Twentieth-Century Music - Lyrics And Lyricism

by Stephanie Oade

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music takes a completely new approach to Catullus and ideas of lyric. It centres around four musical works from the twentieth century, each one capturing the essence of Catullus in musical retellings and showcasing a very personal response to the original text. Considering how and why these musical composers used Catullus's poetry as their stimulus allows us to uncover new ideas about Catullus's poetry. By considering the very process of reception, Stephanie Oade takes a broader view of lyric, identifying traits and characteristics that are common to both music and poetry, thus transcending the boundaries of individual art forms in order to consider the genre in larger, interdisciplinary terms. It offers insights into compositional processes and challenges audiences to think about ways of engaging with music and poetry. More than anything, it shows how ancient voices continue to resound in modernity and offer everlasting expression for our own experiences and emotions.
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Classics Transformed In Jewish, Israeli, And Palestinian Receptions

~~109,96€~~ 98,96€ 10% OFF

 Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites the reader to view classical antiquity through the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel who engaged with Greek and Roman literary precedents. Whereas these voices have up to now been mostly studied independently of one another as separate fields of research, this volume brings some of these distinct voices, who nevertheless share a connection to Greco-Roman antiquity, into conversation with one another. Taking its cue from the crisis of humanism following the Holocaust, the chapters take as their themes the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecomings, drawing connections to acts of translation and transmission of the classics to form a picture of cultural and textual states of alterity. The volume shows that Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian responses to the classics are entangled and even complementary despite their different trajectories. The chapters included here focus particularly on critical moments in Jewish and Palestinian existence when the reception of classical humanism is closely linked to issues of survival. On offer here is a historically grounded investigation into the ways Jews, Israelis, and Palestinians have used classical antiquity and classical philology to validate their identity in a rapidly changing society.
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Susan Sontag'S Tangential Classics

~~78,16€~~ 70,34€ 10% OFF

 Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges tangentially--in often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain.
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Susan Sontag'S Tangential Classics

~~78,16€~~ 70,34€ 10% OFF

 Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges tangentially--in often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain.
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Catullus In Twentieth-Century Music - Lyrics And Lyricism

by Stephanie Oade

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music takes a completely new approach to Catullus and ideas of lyric. It centres around four musical works from the twentieth century, each one capturing the essence of Catullus in musical retellings and showcasing a very personal response to the original text. Considering how and why these musical composers used Catullus's poetry as their stimulus allows us to uncover new ideas about Catullus's poetry. By considering the very process of reception, Stephanie Oade takes a broader view of lyric, identifying traits and characteristics that are common to both music and poetry, thus transcending the boundaries of individual art forms in order to consider the genre in larger, interdisciplinary terms. It offers insights into compositional processes and challenges audiences to think about ways of engaging with music and poetry. More than anything, it shows how ancient voices continue to resound in modernity and offer everlasting expression for our own experiences and emotions.
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Music As Classical Reception - Amplifying Antiquity

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 Music as Classical Reception investigates the enduring importance of music in classical reception, adopting the concept of amplification as a key critical concept. The chapters examine musical settings, reimagining classical lives through music, and the impact of electrical amplification on the musical reception of classical culture.
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Classics Transformed In Jewish, Israeli, And Palestinian Receptions

~~160,87€~~ 144,78€ 10% OFF

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 This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters examine themes including the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecomings.
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Revivals Of Classical Drama In Greece And Spain (1860sâ€“1970s) - Theatre In The Realm Of Ideology

by Vasileios (Substitute Lecturer In Modern Greek Studies, Substitute Lecturer In Modern Greek Studies, University Of Malaga) Balaskas

~~133,84€~~ 120,46€ 10% OFF

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 Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres into sociopolitical platforms fostering collective narratives and theatrical innovation, and reflecting political and cultural particularities.
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Susan Sontag'S Tangential Classics

~~113,56€~~ 102,20€ 10% OFF

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 Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition emerges through traces, connections, and references in a broader context.
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Catullus In Twentieth-Century Music - Lyrics And Lyricism

by Stephanie (Teacher Of Classics And Head Of Quadrivium, Teacher Of Classics And Head Of Quadrivium, Oundle School) Oade

~~133,84€~~ 120,46€ 10% OFF

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 Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring around four musical works from the twentieth century. Stephanie Oade considers how and why musical composers used Catullus's poetry as their stimulus to uncover new ideas about Catullus's poetry.
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Restorations Of Empire In Africa - Ancient Rome And Modern Italy''S African Colonies

by Samuel Agbamu

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy''s colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy''s invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome?This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy''s first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy''s current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism''s invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini''s movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.
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Restorations Of Empire In Africa - Ancient Rome And Modern Italy''S African Colonies

by Samuel Agbamu

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy''s colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy''s invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome?This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy''s first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy''s current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism''s invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini''s movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.
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Derek Walcott'S Encounter With Homer - Landscape, History, And Poetic Voice In Omeros

by Rachel D. Friedman

~~104,66€~~ 94,19€ 10% OFF

 Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walcott's use of the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet.
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Derek Walcott'S Encounter With Homer - Landscape, History, And Poetic Voice In Omeros

by Rachel D. Friedman

~~104,66€~~ 94,19€ 10% OFF

 Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walcott's use of the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet.
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Choice Of Odysseus - Homeric Ethics In Renaissance Epic And Opera

by Sarah Van Der Laan

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
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Apuleius In European Literature - Cupid And Psyche Since 1650

by Regine May e Stephen Harrison

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche in European literature and art from 1650 to the present.
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Choice Of Odysseus - Homeric Ethics In Renaissance Epic And Opera

by Sarah Van Der Laan

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
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Apuleius In European Literature - Cupid And Psyche Since 1650

by Regine May e Stephen Harrison

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche in European literature and art from 1650 to the present.
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Renaissance Battle For Rome - Competing Claims To An Idealized Past In Humanist Latin Poetry

by Susanna De Beer

~~75,51€~~ 67,96€ 10% OFF

 The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome. It traces the contours of this battle across Renaissance Europe, waged by humanist Latin poets negotiating different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work.
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