Classics in Progress
Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Hardback
468 pages
978-0-19-726270-2 (ISBN)
Description
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world.
Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity.
This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.
Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity.
This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.
Reviews / Votes
Anyone who questions whether there remains value in studying ancient Greeks and Romans need only consult almost any page of this volume to find a discipline that, far from dead, is kicking and scratching as it continues to grow. * The Historian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
num. halftones
Hlftones and line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
697 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726270-2 (9780197262702)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio's Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008)
Content
Contemporary Poetry and Classics
A Taste for the Classics
New Texts and Old Theories
The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History
Ciceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of Letters
Discovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw Puzzles
The 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century Model
Recolonising Egypt
Greek History: a Discipline in Transformation
Greek Civilisation and Slavery
Socrates on Trial in the USA
Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum
Look Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15
Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede
; Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics
Galen, Christians, Logic
Rhetoric in Mid-Antiquity
A Taste for the Classics
New Texts and Old Theories
The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History
Ciceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of Letters
Discovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw Puzzles
The 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century Model
Recolonising Egypt
Greek History: a Discipline in Transformation
Greek Civilisation and Slavery
Socrates on Trial in the USA
Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum
Look Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15
Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede
; Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics
Galen, Christians, Logic
Rhetoric in Mid-Antiquity