A Companion to Classical ReceptionsLorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray John Wiley & Sons, 2010 M12 13 - 560 pages 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.
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Contents
Reception and Tradition | 13 |
The Ancient Reception of Homer | 26 |
Achaemenid Persia Ancient | 50 |
Canon Class and Ideology | 75 |
Gladstone and the Classics | 86 |
Eric Williams | 98 |
Virgilian Contexts | 113 |
The Case | 129 |
Oedipus Rex directed by Tyrone Guthrie in 1955 | 263 |
A Case | 274 |
Pylades wearing a steeplecrowned clowns hat Clytemnestra | 282 |
Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians | 287 |
reconstruction | 292 |
Theories and Methodologies | 303 |
The Cyclops and the Gods | 315 |
Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics | 327 |
The Arab | 141 |
Translating the Classical Play | 153 |
Lost in Translation? The Problem of Aristophanic Humour | 168 |
André Gides Rewriting of Myth | 185 |
Feminist Models of Reception | 195 |
Moses and Monotheism and | 207 |
Canonization and Periodization | 219 |
Apolline and Dionysiac | 231 |
Performance Histories | 247 |
Body and Mask in Performances of Classical Drama on | 259 |
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