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A companion to classical receptions /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hardwick, Lorna, Stray, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Subjects:
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Reception and tradition / Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold
  • The ancient reception of Homer / Barbara Graziosi
  • Poets on Socrates' stage : Plato's reception of dramatic art / Chris Emlyn-Jones
  • Respectable in its ruins : Achaemenid Persia, ancient and modern / Thomas Harrison
  • Basil of Caesarea and Greek tragedy / Ruth Webb
  • Our debt to Greece and Rome : canons, class and ideology / Seth L. Schein
  • Gladstone and the classics / David W. Bebbington
  • Between colonialism and independence : Eric Williams and the uses of classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s / Emily Greenwood
  • Virgilian contexts / Stephen Harrison
  • Colonization, closure or creative dialogue? : the case of Pope's Iliad / David Hopkins
  • Translation at the intersection of traditions : the Arab reception of the classics / Ahmed Etman
  • Enough give in it : translating the classical play / J. Michael Walton
  • Lost in translation? : the problem of (Aristophanic) humour / James Robson
  • Making it new : AndrĂ© Gide's rewriting of myth / Cashman Kerr Prince
  • What difference was made? : feminist models of reception / Vanda Zajko
  • History and theory : Moses and monotheism and the historiography of the repressed / Miriam Leonard
  • Performance reception : canonization and periodization / Pantelis Michelakis
  • IphigĂ©nie en Tauride and Elektra : 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' receptions of Greek tragedy into opera / Michael Ewans
  • Performance histories / Fiona Macintosh
  • 'Body and mask' in performances of classical drama on the modern stage / Angeliki Varakis
  • The nomadic theatre of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio : a case of postdramatic reworking of (the classical) tragedy / Freddy Decreus
  • Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians / Nurit Yaari
  • Working with film : theories and methodologies / Joanna Paul
  • The Odyssey from Homer to NBC : the Cyclops and the gods / Hanna M. Roisman
  • A new hope : film as a teaching tool for the classics / Marianne McDonald
  • Possessing Rome : the politics of ruins in Roma capitale / Catharine Edwards
  • You unleash the tempest of tragedy : the 1903 Athenian production of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Gonda Van Steen
  • Multicultural reception : Greek drama in South Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries / Betine van Zyl Smit
  • Putting the class into classical reception / Edith Hall
  • Reframing the Homeric : images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden / Gregson Davis
  • Plato's stepchildren : SF and the classics / Sarah Annes Brown
  • Aristotle's Ethics, old and new / Rosalind Hursthouse
  • Classicizing bodies in the male photographic tradition / Bryan E. Burns
  • Homer in British World War One poetry / Elizabeth Vandiver
  • Reception studies : future prospects / James I. Porter.