http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
vi, 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
"While the study of antiquity and its reception has been an important subject of study for centuries, theoretical approaches to the ways in which reception operates in practice have proven difficult to establish. Classical works, images, and narratives have a long- and wide-ranging reception history and in tracing this history, scholarship has long emphasized that classical receptions shift over time. Given the enduring and, indeed, expanding popularity of the classics, more recent approaches have started to explore those complex receptions as matters of mnemohistory, or cultural histories of memory. Memories of Antiquity builds on this view of classical reception as a mnemohistory by collecting a set of global and transcultural examples in which the study of classical reception is usefully conceptualised through the lens of memory. The collection is fundamentally interdisciplinary, featuring investigations of literature, pop art, photography, film, and even an actual play podcast. The broad scope of the volume creates a multitude of comparative points on how ancient stories and myths are reframed and remembered in different contexts, opening a dialogue for further inquiries into this rich and complex area of research."--
Introduction / Madeleine Scherer, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Jakob Schneider -- I. Written engagements with antiquity -- Embodiment and epistemics in the composition/transmission of ancient texts / Raymond F. Person -- Intertwined memories of Roman emperors in early medieval Iberia / Jorge Elices Ocón -- Remembering the founding of Thebes in French medieval texts from the Roman de Thèbes to the Ovide moralisé (twelfth-early fourteenth century) / Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas -- The "stones of sacrifice" as a literary trope in the works of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and Mona Caird (1854-1932) / Akemi Yoshida -- II. Deconstructing the image of antiquity -- Homer, homoeroticism, homecoming : memories of antiquity in the photography of the Baron von Gloeden / Nikolai Endres -- Memories of whiteness : classical statuary and the new medical norm / Zoe Copeman -- III. Remembering antiquity in contemporary popular culture -- The Spaniard and the South : lost causes and nostalgia in Gladiator (2000) / Jaclyn Neel -- Imagining a Greco-Roman empire in space : Atlantean resonances in Friends at the Table's Divine Cycle / Alex Claman.
edited by Madeleine Scherer, Jakob Schneider and Benjamin Eldon Stevens.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
Civilisation ancienne dans la littérature