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The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term. The book seeks not to arrive at a final definition, but rather to provide a cultural history of the concept by exploring how the meanings of "classical" have been created, recreated, and rejected over time. The book asks questions that have been nearly absent from the scholarly literature. Does "classical" refer to a specific period of history or to the artistic products of that time? How has its definition changed? Did those who lived in classical times have some understanding of what the term "classical" has meant? How coherent, consistent, or even justified is the term? The book's introduction provides a generous theoretical and historical overview. It is followed by eleven chapters in which the contributors argue for the existence not of a single classical past, but of multiple, competing classical pasts. The essays address a broad range of topics--Homer and early Greek poetry and music, Isocrate, Hellenistic and Roman art, Cicero and Greek philosophy, the history of Latin literature, imperial Greek literature, and more. The most up-to-date and challenging treatment of the topic available, this collection will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of ancient and modern literature, art, and cultural history.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691089426
ISBN-13
9780691089423
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Author
James I. Porter
Publication Name
Classical Pasts : the Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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De71.C495 2005
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"In addition to his own outstanding introduction and essay, Professor Porter presents here works by true luminaries in the wide variety of fields that are touched by the issue of classicism in its many forms. The result is a highly significant work." --Mark Fullerton, Ohio State University, author of Ancient Art and Its Historiography
Table of Content
List of Illustrations and Table vii Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: What Is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity? by James I. Porter 1 Part I: The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism Chapter 1: "No Greater Marvel": A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos by Susan E. Alcock and John F. Cherry 69 Part II: Classical Innovations Chapter 2: Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousik by Armand D'Angour 89 Chapter 3: Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens by Yun Lee Too 106 Part III: Baroque Classics Chapter 4: Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum by Andrew Stewart 127 Part IV Latin Letters Chapter 5: From into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism John Henderson 173 Chapter 6: The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature by Mario Citroni 204 Part V: Roman Art Chapter 7: Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past Tonio HÖlscher 237 Chapter 8: Classicism in Roman Art by Jas Elsner 270 Part VI: Imperial Prose Chapter 9: Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism by James I. Porter 301 Chapter 10: Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece by Tim Whitmarsh 353 Coda Looking Back and Beyond Chapter 11: Athens as the School of Greece by Glenn W. Most 377 Bibliography 389 Contributors 431 Index 433
Copyright Date
2006
Topic
Ancient / General, History / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
Lccn
2004-060759
Dewey Decimal
938
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism, History

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