Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Classical Presences) [1 ed.] 9780191091346, 9780198723417, 0191091340

Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Classical Presences) 9780198723417, 0198723415

Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of c

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Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198803034, 0198803036

In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed. The list of censures is long and varied, from political corrupt

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Remembering Parthenope: The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present (Classical Presences) 9780199673933, 0199673934

This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and

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Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer (Classical Presences) 9780192864154, 0192864157

Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for

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Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199689484, 0199689482

The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russia

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Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) 9780198738053, 0198738056

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, wit

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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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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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Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer (Classical Presences) 9780192679130, 9780192864154, 0192679139

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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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