Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods

Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68000-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation

Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the ‘superspreader’ of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Castelli, Silvia

Sluiter, Ineke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Figures and Table

List of Contributors

General Introduction: Agents of Change

Silvia Castelli

1 Mosquitoes, Molecules, and Megafauna: Who and What Has Agency in Human History

J.R. McNeill

2 Builders, Architects, and the Power of Context: Agents of Architectural Change in Fourth-Century-bce Epidaurus and Delphi

Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant

3 Agents of Change around the Valley of the Muses

Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf

4 Callimachus vs. Conon: Competing Agents of Change for the Lock of Berenice

Brett Evans

5 Anonymizing Agents of Change in Philosophical Pseudepigraphy: The Case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute

Albert Joosse

6 Cicero and Political Agency in Late-Republican Rome

Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils

7 Primus Juvencus and Other Agents of Change in the Rise of Christian Latin Poetry

Roald Dijkstra

8 John Cassian as an Agent of Change

Nienke Vos

9 Greek-Latin Translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447–1455): The Agents That Changed the Humanist Translation Movement

Annet den Haan

10 Erasmus, an Unsuspected Superspreader of New Ancient Greek?

Raf Van Rooy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Silvia Castelli, Ph.D. (2019), VU Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor of New Testament. She has published on ancient Jewish literature in Greek and textual criticism, including Johann Jakob Wettstein’s Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism. A Fight for Scholarly Freedom, 2020.

Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990), Leiden University, is Professor of ancient Greek. She has published on ancient and medieval linguistic thought, ancient values, ‘anchoring’ innovation, and cognition, including Minds on Stage. Greek Tragedy and Cognition (ed., with F.J. Budelmann), OUP 2023.