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Classics in the modern world : a "democratic turn"? /
Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a "democratic turn" in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been involved with issues of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning / Katherine Harloe
- Against the 'democratic turn' : counter-texts; counter-contexts; counter-arguments / Lorna Hardwick
- The divided legacy of Politikon : democracy and confict through Roman translation / Alexandra Lianeri
- A democratic turn in the reception of the Roman-Dutch law of treason in South Africa? / John Hilton
- Labour and the classics : Plato and Crossman in dialogue / Michael Simpson
- Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the making of American civic identity / Barbara Lawatsch Melton
- Classics as a weapon : African Americans and the fight for inclusion in American democracy / Margaret Malamud
- Civilization and savagery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition / Robert Davis
- The expansion of tragedy as critique / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
- Investigating American women's engagements with Graeco-Roman antiquity, and expanding the circle of classicists / Judith P. Hallett
- The democratic turn in (and through) pedagogy : a case study of the Cambridge Latin course / Joanna Paul
- Classics in West African education : the rhetoric of colonial commissions / Barbara Goff
- Back to the Demos : an 'anti-classical' approach to classics?
- Martina Treu
- Can 'democratic' modern staging of ancient drama be 'authentic'? / Mary-Kay Gamel
- Demotic power to the people : the triumph of Dimotiki, the triumph of Medea / Anastasia Bakogianni
- Aristophanic performance as an all-inclusive event : audience participation and celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy / Angeliki Varakis
- Constructing bridges for peace and tolerance : Ancient Greek drama on the Israeli stage / Nurit Yaari
- The silence of Eurydice : case study for a 'topology of democracy' / Dorinda Hulton
- Ovidian metamorphoses in the fiction of A.S. Byatt / Fiona Cox
- Catullus and Lesbia translated in women's historical novels / Elena Theodorakopoulos
- Female voices : the democratic turn in Ali Smith's classical reception / FIona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos
- Heroes or villains : the Gracchi, reform, and the nineteenth-century press / Sarah Butler
- Democracy and popular media : classical receptions in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century political cartoons : statesmen, mythological figures, and celebrated artworks / Alexandre G. Mitchell
- Practising classical reception studies 'in the round' : mass media engagements with antiquity and the 'democratic turn' towards the audience / Amanda Wrigley
- In search of ancient myths : documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world / Antony Makrinos
- Truth, justice, and the Spartan way : freedom and democracy in Frank Miller's 300 / George A. Kovacs
- A 'democratic turn' at the Ashmolean Museum / Susan Walker
- All mod cons? Power, openness and text in the digital turn / Elton Barker.