Classical Bearings (eBook)

Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

Peter Green (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91882-5 (ISBN)

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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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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.


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 E

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 

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Alexander • ancient and classical literary criticism • ancient greece and death • Ancient history • ancient literature • Caesar • Catullus • Classical influences • classical translation • classicist • Delphi • Delphic oracle • Demos • Hellenistic Age • Intellectualism • Juvenal • legacy of antiquity • Lesbos • Literary criticism • Literature • literature of antiquity • metamorphosis • Ovid • Precedent • sex and classical literature • Socrates • strepsiades • Survival • thanatos trail • the genius loci • treasures of egypt • Tutankhamun
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91882-7 / 0520918827
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91882-5 / 9780520918825