Memories of Antiquity
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Edited by:
Madeleine Scherer
About this book
While the study of antiquity and its reception has been an important subject of study for centuries, theoretical approaches to the ways in which reception operates in practice have proven difficult to establish. Classical works, images, and narratives have a long- and wide-ranging reception history and in tracing this history, scholarship has long emphasized that classical receptions shift over time. Given the enduring and, indeed, expanding popularity of the classics, more recent approaches have started to explore those complex receptions as matters of mnemohistory, or cultural histories of memory. Memories of Antiquity builds on this view of classical reception as a mnemohistory by collecting a set of global and transcultural examples in which the study of classical reception is usefully conceptualised through the lens of memory. The collection is fundamentally interdisciplinary, featuring investigations of literature, pop art, photography, film, and even an actual play podcast. The broad scope of the volume creates a multitude of comparative points on how ancient stories and myths are reframed and remembered in different contexts, opening a dialogue for further inquiries into this rich and complex area of research.
Author / Editor information
Madeleine Scherer, University of Nottingham, UK; Jakob Schneider, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany; Benjamin Stevens, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I Written Engagements with Antiquity
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Embodiment and Epistemics in the Composition/Transmission of Ancient Texts
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Intertwined Memories of Roman Emperors in Early Medieval Iberia
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Remembering the Founding of Thebes in French Medieval Texts from the Roman de Thèbes to the Ovide moralisé (Twelfth–Early Fourteenth Century)
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The “Stones of Sacrifice” as a Literary Trope in the Works of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) and Mona Caird (1854–1932)
75 - II Deconstructing the Image of Antiquity
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Homer, Homoeroticism, Homecoming: Memories of Antiquity in the Photography of the Baron von Gloeden
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Memories of Whiteness: Classical Statuary and the New Medical Norm
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The Spaniard and the South: Lost Causes and Nostalgia in Gladiator (2000)
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Imagining a Greco-Roman Empire in Space: Atlantean Resonances in Friends at the Table’s Divine Cycle
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The Authors
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Index
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