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Antiquity In Print - Visualizing Greece In The Eighteenth Century

by Daniel Orrells

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 A study of how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to and see Greece.
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Antiquity In Print - Visualizing Greece In The Eighteenth Century

by Daniel Orrells

~~28,61€~~ 25,75€ 10% OFF

 A study of how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to and see Greece.
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Antiquity In Print - Visualizing Greece In The Eighteenth Century

by Daniel (Kingâ€™S College London, Uk) Orrells

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 A study of how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to and see Greece.
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Antiquity In Print - Visualizing Greece In The Eighteenth Century

by Daniel (Kingâ€™S College London, Uk) Orrells

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 A study of how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to and see Greece.
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Preposterous Virgil - Reading Through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

by Juan Christian Pellicer

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 This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil''s texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil''s works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil''s texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.
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Preposterous Virgil - Reading Through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

by Juan Christian Pellicer

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil''s texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil''s works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil''s texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.
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Pindar And The Sublime - Greek Myth, Reception, And Lyric Experience

by Robert L. Fowler

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 Pindar-the ''Theban eagle'', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar''s greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar''s odes as literature. Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar''s odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar''s astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet''s persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar''s views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.
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Pindar And The Sublime - Greek Myth, Reception, And Lyric Experience

by Robert L. Fowler

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 Pindar-the ''Theban eagle'', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar''s greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar''s odes as literature. Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar''s odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar''s astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet''s persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar''s views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.
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In Search Of The Labyrinth - The Cultural Legacy Of Minoan Crete

by Nicoletta Momigliano

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 Longlisted for the Runciman Book Award 2021 Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts - from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.
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In Search Of The Labyrinth - The Cultural Legacy Of Minoan Crete

by Nicoletta Momigliano

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 Longlisted for the Runciman Book Award 2021 Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts - from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.
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Antiquity And The Meanings Of Time - A Philosophy Of Ancient And Modern Literature

by Duncan F. Kennedy

30,99€ + 10% CARD

 This sophisticated cross-disciplinary book will appeal not only to classicists, but also to scholars and students in the humanities more broadly, as well as beyond.
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In Search Of The Labyrinth - The Cultural Legacy Of Minoan Crete

by Nicoletta (University Of Bristol, Uk) Momigliano

32,43€ + 10% CARD

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Preposterous Virgil - Reading Through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

by Professor Juan Christian (University Of Oslo, Norway) Pellicer

31,08€ + 10% CARD

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Pindar And The Sublime - Greek Myth, Reception, And Lyric Experience

by Professor Robert L. (University Of Bristol, Uk) Fowler

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