Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750-1820

Helen Slaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late... Lees meer

Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife

Miryana Dimitrova

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization have... Lees meer

Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad... Lees meer

Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry

Cecilia Piantanida

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, C... Lees meer

Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

Caterina Paoli

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy ... Lees meer

The Classics in Modernist Translation

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work ... Lees meer

Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, 'displacing' them from thei... Lees meer

Now and Rome

Ika Willis

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a ... Lees meer

Classics in Extremis

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made... Lees meer

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis... Lees meer

The Codex Fori Mussolini

Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. I... Lees meer

The Gentle, Jealous God

Simon Perris

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twent... Lees meer

Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition

Christian Thrue Djurslev

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king's conquest of the Persian Empire (335-23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of... Lees meer

The Thucydidean Turn

Benjamin Earley

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern schol... Lees meer

Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Dustin W Dixon, John S Garrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of... Lees meer

Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound

Peter Liebregts

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Turning the tables on the misconception that Ezra Pound knew little Greek, this volume looks at his work translating Greek tragedy and considers how i... Lees meer

The Classics in South America

Germán Campos Muñoz

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, thou... Lees meer

Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Dustin W Dixon, John S Garrison

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of... Lees meer

The Gentle, Jealous God

Simon Perris

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twent... Lees meer

Frankenstein and Its Classics

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and ... Lees meer

Victorian Classical Burlesques

Laura Monros-Gaspar

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastich... Lees meer

The Thucydidean Turn

Benjamin Earley

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern schol... Lees meer

Frankenstein and Its Classics

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and ... Lees meer

Antipodean Antiquities

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the A... Lees meer