Classical Bearings
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Classical Bearings

Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

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  2. English
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Classical Bearings

Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

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In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

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Year
2023
ISBN
9780520918825
Edition
1
Subtopic
Altertum

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. ABBREVIATIONS
  4. I. PRECEDENT, SURVIVAL, METAMORPHOSIS: CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN THE MODERN WORLD
  5. II. VICTORIAN HELLAS
  6. III. LESBOS AND THE GENIUS LOCI
  7. IV. ON THE THANATOS TRAIL
  8. V. THE TREASURES OF EGYPT
  9. VI. DELPHIC RESPONSES
  10. VII. STREPSIADES, SOCRATES, AND THE ABUSES OF INTELLECTUALISM
  11. VIII. DOWNTREADING THE DEMOS
  12. IX. SEX AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
  13. X. THE MACEDONIAN CONNECTION
  14. XI. AFTER ALEXANDER: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE
  15. XII. CAESAR AND ALEXANDER: AEMULATIO, IMITATIO, COMPARATIO
  16. XIII. CARMEN ET ERROR: THE ENIGMA OF OVID'S EXILE
  17. XIV. WIT, SEX AND TOPICALITY: THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING A TRANSLATOR OF OVID'S LOVE POETRY
  18. XV. JUVENAL REVISITED
  19. XVI. MEDIUM AND MESSAGE RECONSIDERED: THE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OF CLASSICAL TRANSLATION
  20. NOTES AND REFERENCES
  21. INDEX