| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (516 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Classical presences
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Classical presences.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning / Katherine Harloe -- Against the 'democratic turn' : counter-texts; counter-contexts; counter-arguments / Lorna Hardwick -- The divided legacy of Politikon : democracy and confict through Roman translation / Alexandra Lianeri -- A democratic turn in the reception of the Roman-Dutch law of treason in South Africa? / John Hilton -- Labour and the classics : Plato and Crossman in dialogue / Michael Simpson -- Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the making of American civic identity / Barbara Lawatsch Melton -- Classics as a weapon : African Americans and the fight for inclusion in American democracy / Margaret Malamud -- Civilization and savagery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition / Robert Davis -- The expansion of tragedy as critique / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Investigating American women's engagements with Graeco-Roman antiquity, and expanding the circle of classicists / Judith P. Hallett -- The democratic turn in (and through) pedagogy : a case study of the Cambridge Latin course / Joanna Paul -- Classics in West African education : the rhetoric of colonial commissions / Barbara Goff -- Back to the Demos : an 'anti-classical' approach to classics? -- Martina Treu -- Can 'democratic' modern staging of ancient drama be 'authentic'? / Mary-Kay Gamel -- Demotic power to the people : the triumph of Dimotiki, the triumph of Medea / Anastasia Bakogianni -- Aristophanic performance as an all-inclusive event : audience participation and celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy / Angeliki Varakis -- Constructing bridges for peace and tolerance : Ancient Greek drama on the Israeli stage / Nurit Yaari -- The silence of Eurydice : case study for a 'topology of democracy' / Dorinda Hulton -- Ovidian metamorphoses in the fiction of A.S. Byatt / Fiona Cox -- Catullus and Lesbia translated in women's historical novels / Elena Theodorakopoulos -- Female voices : the democratic turn in Ali Smith's classical reception / FIona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos -- Heroes or villains : the Gracchi, reform, and the nineteenth-century press / Sarah Butler -- Democracy and popular media : classical receptions in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century political cartoons : statesmen, mythological figures, and celebrated artworks / Alexandre G. Mitchell -- Practising classical reception studies 'in the round' : mass media engagements with antiquity and the 'democratic turn' towards the audience / Amanda Wrigley -- In search of ancient myths : documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world / Antony Makrinos -- Truth, justice, and the Spartan way : freedom and democracy in Frank Miller's 300 / George A. Kovacs -- A 'democratic turn' at the Ashmolean Museum / Susan Walker -- All mod cons? Power, openness and text in the digital turn / Elton Barker. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Classical literature.
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Classical literature. |
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Literature, Ancient.
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Literature, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hardwick, Lorna.
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Harrison, S. J.
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| ISBN |
9780191655432 (electronic book) |
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0191655430 (electronic book) |
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0199673926 |
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9780199673926 |
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9780199673926 |
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