Silk / Gildenhard / Barrow The Classical Tradition

Art, Literature, Thought
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61048-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten, E-Book

The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.
* Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis
* Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner
* Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity
* Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together
* Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silk, Michael

Gildenhard, Ingo

Barrow, Rosemary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii
List of Plates viii
Prologue ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Part I Overview 1
§1 The Classical Tradition and the Scope of Our Book 3
§2 Mapping the Field 10
§3 Eras 15
§4 Sustaining the Tradition: Classics and Education 32
§5 Authority and Authorities 52
§6 Masters of Knowledge 61
§7 Models of Style 69
§8 Beacons of Morality 79
§9 Love Guides 87
§10 Special Relationships 98
§11 The Visual Arts: Contexts and Connections 102
§12 Popular Culture and Its Problematics 119
§13 Languages and Language 137
§14 Modes of Engagement 166
§15 Translation 173
§16 Science and Sensibility 199
§17 Looking at the Past 224
§18 The Classical Tradition - and the Rest 241
Part II Archetypes 249
§19 Preface 251
§20 The Dome 253
§21 The Hero 263
§22 Word-Genres 276
Part III The Imaginary 287
§23 Preface 289
§24 Myth 292
§25 The City: Rome 306
§26 Forms of Government 322
§27 The Order of Things 331
Part IV Making a Difference 341
§28 Preface 343
§29 Originators 346
§30 Points of Departure 358
§31 Ideas and Action 375
Part V Contrasts and Comparisons 391
§32 Preface 393
§33 Painting 394
§34 Political Thought 402
§35 Poetry 411
Epilogue 428
Bibliography 432
Index 475

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Silk is Professor of Classical and ComparativeLiterature at King's College London and Adjunct Professor inthe Department of English and Comparative Literature at theUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ingo Gildenhard is a Lecturer in Classics at theUniversity of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College.
Rosemary Barrow is Reader in Classical Art and Receptionat the University of Roehampton.