A Companion to Classical Receptions
Published on 18. December 2007
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-1-4051-5167-2 (ISBN)
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Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.
Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics
Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices
Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion
Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics
Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics
Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices
Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion
Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics
Reviews / Votes
"It is impossible in a short review to do justice to every single contribution of this multifaceted volume. One of the many attractive features of this collection is that it offers not only innovative essays about the reception and translation of the most read authors of antiquity ... but also expands the horizon of the reception studies by introducing into the discussion untraditional themes and providing original approaches to the concepts frequently discussed in the context of reception." (The Classical Outlook, Fall 2008) "This volume is an essential introduction to reception studies for both school and university students ... .Written in an accessible and engaging manner with useful sections for further reading." (Journal of Classics Teaching, Autumn 2008)"...importantly, this volume exemplifies the recent boom in reception studies, and its potential to critique our subject and methodology." (Greece and Rome, Vol 55 No. 2 2008)
"The scale of this enterprise is such that the complete collection will compete with established reference works ... and should prove useful." (Scholia Reviews, 2008)
"Hardwick and Stray's Companion pushes lingering worries about elitism and irrelevance right off the table. Companion offers bold reasons to treat classical studies as the cosmopolitan glue of the postmodern world. The book sparkles with the excitement that makes A Companion to Classical Receptions such an eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008)
"Bursting-at-the-seams ... An eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement)
"A spectacular volume from the massive series of 'Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World' ... The editors have pulled in a wider splay of trades and topics than any of their companions' companions or their own now mushrooming rivals can boast." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
"There is sufficient careful scholarship, critical analysis, and contextualisation in this collection to warrant the claim that it provides a sophisticated and far-ranging overview of this burgeoning and dynamic field." (Scholia)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-5167-2 (9781405151672)
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Persons
Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie) Classics in Post-colonial Worlds (2007).
Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Classics Transformed: Schools Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor of The Owl of Minerva (2005), Classical Books (2007) and Remaking the Classics (2007).
Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Classics Transformed: Schools Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor of The Owl of Minerva (2005), Classical Books (2007) and Remaking the Classics (2007).
Content
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction: Making Connections 1
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11
1 Reception and Tradition 13
Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold
2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26
Barbara Graziosi
3 Poets on Socrates' Stage: Plato's Reception of Dramatic Art 38
Chris Emlyn-Jones
4 'Respectable in Its Ruins': Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50
Thomas Harrison
5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62
Ruth Webb
Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73
6 'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canon, Class and Ideology 75
Seth L. Schein
7 Gladstone and the Classics 86
David W. Bebbington
8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98
Emily Greenwood
9 Virgilian Contexts 113
Stephen Harrison
Part III Translation 127
10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope's Iliad 129
David Hopkins
11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141
Ahmed Etman
12 'Enough Give in It': Translating the Classical Play 153
J. Michael Walton
13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168
James Robson
Part IV Theory and Practice 183
14 'Making It New': Andre Gide's Rewriting of Myth 185
Cashman Kerr Prince
15 'What Difference Was Made?': Feminist Models of Reception 195
Vanda Zajko
16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207
Miriam Leonard
17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219
Pantelis Michelakis
Part V Performing Arts 229
18 Iphigenie en Tauride and Elektra: 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231
Michael Ewans
19 Performance Histories 247
Fiona Macintosh
20 'Body and Mask' in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259
Angeliki Varakis
21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274
Freddy Decreus
22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287
Nurit Yaari
Part VI Film 301
23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303
Joanna Paul
24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315
Hanna M. Roisman
25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327
Marianne McDonald
Part VII Cultural Politics 343
26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345
Catharine Edwards
27 'You unleash the tempest of tragedy': The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus' Oresteia 360
Gonda Van Steen
28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373
Betine van Zyl Smit
29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386
Edith Hall
Part VIII Changing Contexts 399
30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401
Gregson Davis
31 'Plato's Stepchildren': SF and the Classics 415
Sarah Annes Brown
32 Aristotle's Ethics, Old and New 428
Rosalind Hursthouse
33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440
Bryan E. Burns
34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452
Elizabeth Vandiver
Part IX Reflection and Critique 467
35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469
James I. Porter
Bibliography 482
Index 533
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction: Making Connections 1
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11
1 Reception and Tradition 13
Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold
2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26
Barbara Graziosi
3 Poets on Socrates' Stage: Plato's Reception of Dramatic Art 38
Chris Emlyn-Jones
4 'Respectable in Its Ruins': Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50
Thomas Harrison
5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62
Ruth Webb
Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73
6 'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canon, Class and Ideology 75
Seth L. Schein
7 Gladstone and the Classics 86
David W. Bebbington
8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98
Emily Greenwood
9 Virgilian Contexts 113
Stephen Harrison
Part III Translation 127
10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope's Iliad 129
David Hopkins
11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141
Ahmed Etman
12 'Enough Give in It': Translating the Classical Play 153
J. Michael Walton
13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168
James Robson
Part IV Theory and Practice 183
14 'Making It New': Andre Gide's Rewriting of Myth 185
Cashman Kerr Prince
15 'What Difference Was Made?': Feminist Models of Reception 195
Vanda Zajko
16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207
Miriam Leonard
17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219
Pantelis Michelakis
Part V Performing Arts 229
18 Iphigenie en Tauride and Elektra: 'Apolline' and 'Dionysiac' Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231
Michael Ewans
19 Performance Histories 247
Fiona Macintosh
20 'Body and Mask' in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259
Angeliki Varakis
21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274
Freddy Decreus
22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287
Nurit Yaari
Part VI Film 301
23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303
Joanna Paul
24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315
Hanna M. Roisman
25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327
Marianne McDonald
Part VII Cultural Politics 343
26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345
Catharine Edwards
27 'You unleash the tempest of tragedy': The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus' Oresteia 360
Gonda Van Steen
28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373
Betine van Zyl Smit
29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386
Edith Hall
Part VIII Changing Contexts 399
30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401
Gregson Davis
31 'Plato's Stepchildren': SF and the Classics 415
Sarah Annes Brown
32 Aristotle's Ethics, Old and New 428
Rosalind Hursthouse
33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440
Bryan E. Burns
34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452
Elizabeth Vandiver
Part IX Reflection and Critique 467
35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469
James I. Porter
Bibliography 482
Index 533