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Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception

Herausgegeben von: Franco Montanari und Antonios Rengakos
Wissenschaftl. Beratung: Lorna Hardwick, Fiona Macintosh und Miltos Pechlivanos

ISSN: 2629-2556

e-ISSN 2629-2564

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Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception publishes innovative, crossdisciplinary work in the field of Classical Reception Studies, investigating the “pathways” through which Greek and Roman material has been transmitted, translated, transformed, interpreted, and represented in Postclassical Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Political Theory, Visual & Performing Arts as well as in the film industry.

The series welcomes both monographs and edited volumes providing deep insights into specific and so far neglected aspects of the reception of antiquity.

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Classical Reception

New Challenges in a Changing World

Anastasia Bakogianni, Luis Unceta Gómez

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In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and material culture from their reception, and interpretive communities. Our contributors engage with these questions theoretically and/or through the close examination of cultural artefacts. They problematise the concept of a Western, elitist canon and actively push the geographical boundaries of reception as both a local and a global phenomenon. Individually and cumulatively, they actively engage with the question of how to marshal the classical past in our efforts to respond to the challenges of our mutable contemporary world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110773729
ISBN:: 9783110773729
ISBN:: 9783110773835
ISBN:: 9783110773385
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Wisdom from Rome

Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato

Serena Connolly

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare assumed their audiences knew them well—and they almost certainly did. Yet most Classicists today have either never heard of them or mistakenly attribute them to Cato the Elder. The Distichs are a collection of approximately 150 two-line maxims in hexameters that offer instructions about or reflections on topics such as friendship, money, reputation, justice, and self-control. Wisdom from Rome argues that Classicists (and others) should read the Distichs: they provide important insights into the ancient Roman literate masses’ conceptions of society and their views of relationships between the individual, family, community, and state. Newly dated to the first century CE, they are an important addition and often corrective to more familiar contemporary texts that treat the same topics. Moreover, as the field of Classics increasingly acknowledges the intellectual importance of exploring the reception of Classical texts, an introduction to one of the most widely read ancient texts for many centuries is timely and important.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789492
ISBN:: 9783110789492
ISBN:: 9783110789614
ISBN:: 9783110788846
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Lateinische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Lateinische Autoren
Fachgebiet:: Lateinische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism

Aspects of a Transcultural Movement

Martin Vöhler, Stella Alekou, Miltos Pechlivanos

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Key aspects of philhellenism – political self-determination, freedom, beauty, individual greatness – originate in antiquity and present a complex reception history. The force of European philhellenism derives from ancient Roman idealizations, which have been drawn on by European movements since the Enlightenment. How is philhellenism able to transcend national, cultural and epochal limits? The articles collected in this volume deal with (1) the ancient conceptualization of philhellenism, (2) the actualization and politicization of the term at the time of the European Restoration (1815–30), and (3) the transformation of philhellenism into a pan-European movement. During the Greek struggle for independence the different receptions of philhellenism regain a common focus; philhellenism becomes an inextricable element in the creation of a pan-European identity and a starting point for the regeneration and modernization of Greece. – It is easy to criticize the tradition of philhellenism as being simplistic, naïve, and self-serving, but there is an irreducibly utopian element in later philhellenic idealizations of ancient Greece.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716023
ISBN:: 9783110716023
ISBN:: 9783110715712
ISBN:: 9783110716092
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Alte Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

The Hellenizing Muse

A European Anthology of Poetry in Ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the Present

Filippomaria Pontani, Stefan Weise

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire. However, after the Byzantine refugees restored the knowledge of Ancient Greek in the west during the early humanistic period (15th century), Italian scholars (and later their French, German, Spanish colleagues) started to use Greek, a purely literary language that no one spoke, for their own texts and poems. This habit persisted with various ups and downs throughout the centuries, according to the development of Greek studies in each country. The aim of this anthology - the first one of this kind - is to give a selective overview of this kind of humanistic poetry in Ancient Greek, embracing all major regions of Europe and trying to concentrate on remarkable pieces of important poets. The ultimate goal of the book is to shed light on an important and so far mostly neglected aspect of the European heritage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652758
ISBN:: 9783110652758
ISBN:: 9783111255965
ISBN:: 9783110652871
ISBN:: 9783110641233
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe

Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries)

Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino, Cécile Dudouyt, Lucy C. M. M. Jackson

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England).
Whilst studies of the reception of ancient Greek drama in this period have generally focused on one national tradition, this book widens the geographical and linguistic scope so as to approach it as a European phenomenon. Latin translations are particularly emblematic of this broader scope: translators from all over Europe latinised Greek drama and, as they did so, developed networks of translators and practices of translation that could transcend national borders. The chapters collected here demonstrate that translation theory and practice did not develop in national isolation, but were part of a larger European phenomenon, nourished by common references to Biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities, and honed by common religious and scholarly controversies. In addition to situating these texts in the wider context of the reception of Greek drama in the early modern period, this volume opens avenues for theoretical debate about translation practices and discourses on translation, and on how they map on to twenty-first-century terminology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719185
ISBN:: 9783110719185
ISBN:: 9783110718652
ISBN:: 9783110719314
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte der Literaturwissenschaft
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Colin Burrow, Stephen J. Harrison, Martin McLaughlin, Elisabetta Tarantino

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters.

It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of ‘window reference’ and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699593
ISBN:: 9783110699593
ISBN:: 9783110699692
ISBN:: 9783110699500
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Lateinische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Lateinische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History

Aaron Turner

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627305
ISBN:: 9783110627305
ISBN:: 9783110627107
ISBN:: 9783110627466
ISBN:: 9783110995909
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

The Masons and the Mysteries in 18th Century Drama

Three Masonic Comedies: Pierre Clément, Les Fri-maçons; Carlo Goldoni, Le Donne Curiose; Francesco Griselini, I Liberi Muratori

Matthew Leigh

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to bolster this claim and how the creative literature of the period reflected their ideas. The scholarly investigation of freemasonry is a relatively new phenomenon. The writings of active freemasons tend either to generate new masonic myths or to focus on the minutiae of insignia, rank, and ritual. Only in the last 50 years have non-masons given serious thought to freemasonry as a social practice and to its place within the intellectual and political life of Enlightenment Europe and beyond. Study of masonic elements in literary texts lags much further behind. This volume offers the first English translations of three mid-18th century comedies on female curiosity about this exclusively male order and shows how they reflect contemporary attempts to forge a link with ancient mystery cult. The theatrical aspect of masonic ritual and the ancient mysteries is examined in depth. This volume opens up important new ground in classical reception and 18th century theatre history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110676297
ISBN:: 9783110676297
ISBN:: 9783110676198
ISBN:: 9783110676358
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Antike Religionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2020

Cupid and Psyche

The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600

Regine May, Stephen J. Harrison

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text.
Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars.
Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110641585
ISBN:: 9783110641585
ISBN:: 9783110777482
ISBN:: 9783110642001
ISBN:: 9783110641196
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirkungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter