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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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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.