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Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII /

Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World is a collaboration between scholars working on diverse areas and periods of ancient Greco-Roman culture. The volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ker, James, 1970- (compiler of edition.), Pieper, Christoph (compiler of edition.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; volume 369.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General introduction : valuing antiquity in antiquity / James Ker and Christoph Pieper
  • PART 1. LOCATING THE PAST IN PEOPLES OR PLACES
  • Pelasgians and Leleges : using the past to understand the present / Jeremy McInerney
  • The Egyptian past in the Roman present / Maaike Leemreize
  • The Roman suburbium and the Roman past / Joseph Farrell
  • PART 2. ENCOUNTERING THE PAST THROUGH MATERIAL OBJECTS
  • Burnt temples in the landscape of the past / Margaret M. Miles
  • Keimelia in context : toward an understanding of the value of antiquities in the past / Amanda S. Reiterman
  • Croesus' offerings and the value of the past in Herodotus' histories / Karen Bassi
  • PART 3. PERSONS SEEMING TO EMBODY AN ANCIENT ETHOS
  • The creation of anachronism : assessing ancient valor in Sophocles' Ajax / Sheila Murnaghan
  • Long ago and far away ... the uses of the past in Tacitus' Minora / Christina S. Kraus
  • M. Atilius Regulus-making defeat into victory : diverse values in an ambivalent story / Eleanor Winsor Leach
  • PART 4. THE PRESENT DISTANCED FROM PAST EXAMPLES
  • Agrippina the Younger : Tacitus' Unicum Exemplum / Caitlin C. Gillespie
  • Si te nostra tulissent saecula : comparison with the past as a means of glorifying the present in Domitianic Panegyric / Lisa Cordes
  • The value of the past challenged : myth and ancient history in the Attic orators / Jonas Grethlein
  • PART 5. THE ARCHAIC PAST IN LITERARY HISTORY
  • Archaizing and classicism in the literary historical thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Lawrence Kim
  • The Attic muse and the Asian harlot : classicizing allegories in Dionysius and Longinus / Casper C. de Jonge
  • From Lesbos she took her honeycomb : Sappho and the "female tradition" in Hellenistic poetry / Mieke de Vos
  • Ennius and the revaluation of traditional historiography in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura / Jason S. Nethercut
  • PART 6. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOURSES
  • Valuing the mediators of antiquity in the Noctes Atticae / Joseph A. Howley
  • Valuing antiquity in antiquity by means of allegoresis / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.