Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192569394, 9780198833031, 0192569392

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198833031, 0198833032

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a

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Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191079849, 9780198767114, 0191079847

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Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198767114, 0198767110

Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to ass

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Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (Classical Presences) 9780199689729, 0199689725

Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's si

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Postdramatic Tragedies (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198817680, 0198817681

Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition t

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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199596461, 0199596468

The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth cen

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Lucretius and the Early Modern (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198713845, 0198713843

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem

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Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198814122, 0198814127

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has lon

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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198746676, 0198746679

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in

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Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self (Classical Presences) 9780199656677, 0199656673

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his

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