Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Italy and the Classical Tradition
Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on later times. In response to a growing interest in Classical reception, this volume provides a timely reappraisal...
by Peter Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome
This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and...
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 2
Women in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 12 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21–23):
Thematic Study: Women in the Ancient World by Robert...
War as Spectacle
Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33
Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and Alastair Thorley
Politics of the Late Republic...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34
Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta Steinhauer
Democracy and the Athenians...
The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2007
It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his...
Classics in Extremis
The Edges of Classical Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from...
Locating Classical Receptions on Screen
Masks, Echoes, Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
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.
Provides a comprehensive introduction...
Hereditas
Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question. In various ways their essays...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 and 24
Invention of the Barbarian and Greek Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 23 and 24 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group:
Invention of the Barbarianby Alastair Thorley
Greek Artby Athina Mitropoulos and...