A Companion to Classical ReceptionsLorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray Wiley, 2008 M01 3 - 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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... understanding its social and sexual discourses as the manifestations of a society which has not known psychoanalysis . And yet , as Gay points out , ' the professional historian has always been a psycho- logist - an amateur psychologist ...
... understanding its social and sexual discourses as the manifestations of a society which has not known psychoanalysis . And yet , as Gay points out , ' the professional historian has always been a psycho- logist - an amateur psychologist ...
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... understanding the temporality of meaning , a different way of conceptualizing how the pastness of the past impacts on its meaning in the pre- sent . Reception studies have often been figured within the field of Classics as anti ...
... understanding the temporality of meaning , a different way of conceptualizing how the pastness of the past impacts on its meaning in the pre- sent . Reception studies have often been figured within the field of Classics as anti ...
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... understanding the development of tragedy . On the one hand it dramatizes evolutionary and teleological narratives of progress introduced by the character of Euripides . On the other hand it features narratives of decline and fall and ...
... understanding the development of tragedy . On the one hand it dramatizes evolutionary and teleological narratives of progress introduced by the character of Euripides . On the other hand it features narratives of decline and fall and ...
Contents
Reception and Tradition | 13 |
The Ancient Reception of Homer | 26 |
Achaemenid Persia Ancient | 50 |
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