{"product_id":"a-companion-to-classical-receptions-isbn-9781444339222","title":"A Companion to Classical Receptions","description":"Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Classical Receptions\u003c\/i\u003e explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Making Connections 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Reception and Tradition 13\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFelix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Graziosi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChris Emlyn-Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Respectable in Its Ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Webb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeth L. Schein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Gladstone and the Classics 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid W. Bebbington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmily Greenwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Virgilian Contexts 113\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Translation 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope’s Iliad 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hopkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAhmed Etman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘Enough Give in It’: Translating the Classical Play 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Michael Walton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Robson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Theory and Practice 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 ‘Making It New’: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth 185\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCashman Kerr Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 ‘What Difference Was Made?’: Feminist Models of Reception 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVanda Zajko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMiriam Leonard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePantelis Michelakis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Performing Arts 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: ‘Apolline’ and ‘Dionysiac’ Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Ewans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Performance Histories 247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFiona Macintosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAngeliki Varakis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFreddy Decreus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNurit Yaari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Film 301\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoanna Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHanna M. Roisman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianne McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Cultural Politics 343\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatharine Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 ‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia 360\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGonda Van Steen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBetine van Zyl Smit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdith Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII Changing Contexts 399\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGregson Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’: SF and the Classics 415\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Annes Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Aristotle’s Ethics, Old and New 428\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRosalind Hursthouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBryan E. Burns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Vandiver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX Reflection and Critique 467\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames I. Porter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 533\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This variegated and sizeable volume has for me been stimulating and informative, a pleasure to read for review . . . The ‘future paths' he proposes seem to me to amount to different configurations of intellectual history, so no surprises there; but his clear statement of the opportunities offered by reception studies in the classroom is admirable, and his call for ‘a new kind of classicist-academic: the engaged public intellectual' is visionary. \" (Translation and Literature, 2011)  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLorna Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature include \u003ci\u003eTranslating Words, Translating Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eNew Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie) \u003ci\u003eClassics in Post-colonial Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Stray\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eClassics Transformed: Schools Universities\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSociety in England 1830-1960\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Owl of Minerva\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eClassical Books\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eRemaking the Classics\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e From antiquity to the present, Greek and Roman literature, drama, myths, ideas and art have influenced every aspect of human achievement. Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, this volume explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Classical Receptions\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive guide to the field that combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion. The volume brings together essays on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices, and focuses on key turning points and areas of convergence and divergence. Contributors explore the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including discussions of new research on Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography and contemporary ethics. The book challenges readers to reassess their assumptions about both the ancient and the modern world, and reveals the vitality of classical culture and its centrality to modern debates.\u003c\/p\u003e  “It is impossible in a short review to do justice to every single contribution of this multifaceted volume. One of the many attractive features of this collection is that it offers not only innovative essays about the reception and translation of the most read authors of antiquity … but also expands the horizon of the reception studies by introducing into the discussion untraditional themes and providing original approaches to the concepts frequently discussed in the context of reception.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Classical Outlook\u003c\/i\u003e, Fall 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"This volume is an essential introduction to reception studies for both school and university students … .Written in an accessible and engaging manner with useful sections for further reading.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Classics Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e, Autumn 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"…importantly, this volume exemplifies the recent boom in reception studies, and its potential to critique our subject and methodology.\" (\u003ci\u003eGreece and Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol 55 No. 2 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The scale of this enterprise is such that the complete collection will compete with established reference works … and should prove useful.\" (\u003ci\u003eScholia Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hardwick and Stray's Companion pushes lingering worries about elitism and irrelevance right off the table. Companion offers bold reasons to treat classical studies as the cosmopolitan glue of the postmodern world. The book sparkles with the excitement that makes A Companion to Classical Receptions such an eye-opening delight.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bursting-at-the-seams … An eye-opening delight.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A spectacular volume from the massive series of 'Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World' … The editors have pulled in a wider splay of trades and topics than any of their companions' companions or their own now mushrooming rivals can boast.\" (\u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There is sufficient careful scholarship, critical analysis, and contextualisation in this collection to warrant the claim that it provides a sophisticated and far-ranging overview of this burgeoning and dynamic field.\" (\u003ci\u003eScholia\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988603715813,"sku":"NP9781444339222","price":63.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444339222.jpg?v=1761780935","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-classical-receptions-isbn-9781444339222","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}