Classics in the Modern World
A Democratic Turn?
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
516 pages
978-0-19-165543-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 democracy, both in political culture and in the greater diffusion of classics in recent times outside the elite classes.
By looking at individual case studies from theatre, film, fiction, TV, radio, museums, and popular media, and through area studies that consider trends over time in particular societies, the volume explores the relationship between Greek and Roman ways of thinking and modern definitions of democratic practices and approaches, enabling a wider re-evaluation of the role of ancient Greece and Rome in the modern world.
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Lorna Hardwick is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. She has published books and articles on Greek drama and on Greek and Latin poetry and historiography and its reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is editor of the Classical Receptions Journal and co-series editor of the Classical Presences series (OUP).
Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Content
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Section 1: Controversies and debates
- 1: Katherine Harloe: Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning
- 2: Lorna Hardwick: Against the Democratic Turn: Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter- arguments
- 3: Aleka Lianeri: Conflicts of democracy and citizenship: Between the Greek and the Roman Political Legacies
- 4: John Hilton: The Reception of the Roman-Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa
- 5: Michael Simpson: Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue
- Section 2: Area Study The United States
- 6: Barbara Lawatsch Melton: Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the Making of American Civic Identity
- 7: Margaret Malamud: The Weapon of Oratory
- 8: Robert Davis: Civilization versus Savagery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
- 9: Nancy S. Rabinowitz: Expansion of Tragedy as Critique
- 10: Judith P. Hallett: Investigating American women's engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity, and expanding the circle of 'classicists'
- Section 3: Education: Ideologies, Practices and Contexts
- 11: Joanna Paul: The Democratic Turn in (and through) pedagogy: a case study of the Cambridge Latin Course
- 12: Barbara Goff: Classics in African Education : the rhetoric of colonial commissions
- 13: Martina Treu: Back to the demos. An 'anti-classical' approach to Classics
- Section 4: Greek Drama in Modern Performance: Democracy, Culture and Tradition
- 14: Mary-Kay Gamel: Can 'Democratic' Stagings of Modern Greek Drama be Authentic?
- 15: Anastasia Bakogianni: The triumph of demotike: the triumph of Medea
- 16: Angeliki Varakis: Aristophanes in Performance as an all-inclusive event': audience participation and celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy
- 17: Nurit Yaari: Constructing Bridges for Peace and Tolerance: Ancient Greek Drama on the Israeli Stage
- 18: Dorinda Hulton: The Silence of Eurydice: case study for a 'topology of democracy'
- Section 5: Creativity female agency in fiction on poetry
- 19: Fiona Cox: Ovidian Metamorphoses in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt
- 20: Elena Theodorakopoulos: Catullus and Lesbia translated in women's historical novels
- 21: Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos: Female Voices: the democratic turn in Ali Smith's classical reception
- Section 6: The Public Imagination
- 22: Sarah Butler: Heroes or Villains: The Gracchi, Reform and the Nineteenth-Century Press
- 23: Alexandre G. Mitchell: Democracy and popular media: classical receptions in 19th and 20th century political cartoons: statesmen, mythological figures and celebrated artworks
- 24: Amanda Wrigley: Practising classical reception studies 'in the round': mass media engagements with antiquity and the 'democratic turn' towards the audience
- 25: Antony Makrinos: In search of ancient myths: documentaries and the quest for the Homeric World
- 26: George A. Kovacs: Truth, Justice, and the Spartan Way : Affectations of Democracy in Frank Miller's 300
- 27: Susan Walker: A 'Democratic Turn' at the Ashmolean Museum
- 28: Elton Barker: All Mod Cons: Power, Openness and Text in a Digital Turn
- 29: S.Sara Monoson: Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
