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Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Wiseman, T.P.

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Category: Greco-Roman History
Code: 1668
ISBN-13: 9780197263235 / 978-0-19-726323-5
ISBN-10: 0197263232 / 0-19-726323-2
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 451
Book Condition: New
Comments: British Academy Centenary Monographs, First Published 2002

Classics in Progress
Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by T. P. Wiseman
OUP/British Academy

British Academy Centenary Monographs
A timely reassertion of the vitality of classical scholarship

Description
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world.

Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity.

This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.

Table of Contents
Contemporary Poetry and Classics, Oliver Taplin
A Taste for the Classics, Pat Easterling
New Texts and Old Theories, Peter Parsons
The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History, R. R. R. Smith
Ciceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of Letters, Mary Beard
Discovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw Puzzles, M. H. Crawford
The 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century Model, Averil Cameron
Recolonising Egypt, Alan Bowman
Greek History: a Discipline in Transformation, John K. Davies
Greek Civilisation and Slavery, Paul Cartledge
Socrates on Trial in the USA, Malcolm Schofield
Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum, T. P. Wiseman
Look Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15, Jasper Griffin
Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede, Philip Hardie
; Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics, Mary Margaret McCabe
Galen, Christians, Logic, Jonathan Barnes
Rhetoric in Mid-Antiquity, Malcolm Heath

 
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Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Wiseman, T.P.

  • ISBN-13: 9780197263235 / 978-0-19-726323-5
  • ISBN-03: 0197263232 / 0-19-726323-2
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

Price: 43,00 EURO

1 copy in stock