Chapter 4. Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Table vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction. What Is “Classical” about Classical Antiquity? 1
7. Part I. The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism
8. Chapter 1. “No Greater Marvel”: A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos 67
9. Part II. Classical Innovations
10. Chapter 2. Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousike 87
11. Chapter 3. Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens 106
12. Part III. Baroque Classics
13. Chapter 4. Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum 125
14. Part IV. Latin Letters
15. Chapter 5. From ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism 171
16. Chapter 6. The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature 204
17. Part V. Roman Art
18. Chapter 7. Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past 235
19. Chapter 8. Classicism in Roman Art 270
20. Part VI. Imperial Prose
21. Chapter 9. Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism 299
22. Chapter 10. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece 353
23. Coda. Looking Back and Beyond
24. Chapter 11. Athens as the School of Greece 375
25. Bibliography 389
26. Contributors 431
27. Index 435