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Green

Classical Bearings

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-20811-7
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.1998
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In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520208117
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-20811-7
  • Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.1998
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 1998
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 454 g
  • Seiten: 328
  • Format (B x H x T): 154 x 227 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

I Precedent, Survival, Metamorphosis: Classical Influences in the Modern World

II Victorian Hellas

III Lesbos and the Genius Loci

IV On the Thanatos Trail

V The Treasures of Egypt
VI Delphic Responses

VII Strepsiades, Socrates, and the Abuses of lntellectualism

VIII Downtreading the Demos

IX Sex and Classical Literature

X The Macedonian Connection

XI After Alexander: Some Historiographical Approaches to the Hellenistic Age

XII Caesar and Alexander: aemulatio, imitatio, comparatio

XIII Carmen et Error: The Enigma of Ovid's Exile

XIV Wit, Sex and Topicality: The Problems Confronting a Translator of Ovid's Love Poetry

XV Juvenal Revisited

XVI Medium and Message Reconsidered: The Changing Functions of Classical Translation

Notes and References

Index