A Cockney Catullus

Henry Stead

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Rom... Lees meer

Theatre of the Condemned

Gonda Van Steen

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Gonda Van Steen examines the productions of classical tragedies staged by political prisoners of the Greek Civil War (late 1940s to 1950s). She first ... Lees meer

African Athena

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Afric... Lees meer

The Nation and Its Ruins

Yannis Hamilakis

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the m... Lees meer

Placing Modern Greece

Constanze Guthenke

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a te... Lees meer

Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature

Carol Dougherty

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca W... Lees meer

Classics and Comics

Kovacs George

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Presences
• Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman m... Lees meer

Conversing with Antiquity

David Hopkins

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Presences
• Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies of the reception of the classics by English poets of the seve... Lees meer

Louis Macneice: The Classical Radio Plays

Amanda Wrigley, S J Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• This volume presents eleven radio scripts written and produced by the poet and writer Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) over the span of his twenty-year care... Lees meer

Divers Greek Trag Cont Us Stage Clpr C

Powers

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to share in the preoccupations an... Lees meer

Remembering Parthenope

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, ... Lees meer

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Thomas Matthew Vozar

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an inve... Lees meer

Women Classical Scholars

Rosie Wyles

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women bo... Lees meer

Between Jerusalem and Athens

Nurit Yaari

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in which theatre played no part i... Lees meer

Classics in Britain

Christopher Stray

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously publis... Lees meer

Lucretius and the Early Modern

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of... Lees meer

Roman Receptions of Sappho

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this.... Lees meer

Dynamic Reading

Brooke (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of, W. H. (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of C

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the l... Lees meer

Childhood and the Classics

Sheila Murnaghan, Deborah H Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recent... Lees meer

The Senecan Aesthetic

Helen Slaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the ... Lees meer

Classical Traditions in Science Fiction

Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply w... Lees meer

Living Classics

S J Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains bot... Lees meer

Laughing with Medusa

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Classical Presences Series Editors: Lorna Hardwick , Professor of Classical Studies, Open University, and James I. Porter^, Professor of Greek, Latin,... Lees meer

Fragmentary Modernism

Nora Goldschmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | Classical Presences
• Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emer... Lees meer