Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome

Name: Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 0691089426
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ISBN: 9780691089423

(Paperback) | Released: 11 Dec 2005

By: James I. Porter (Edited) | Publisher: Princeton University Press | Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press

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Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
Format: Paperback

About the Book

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.

Table of Contents:
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 Holscher 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

About the Author :

James I. Porter is Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future and The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy.

Review :
"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 "This is an appealing and innovative book that will make a difference and attract considerable attention from all the sub-fields of what is conventionally known as Classics."—Allesandro Barchiesi, Stanford University and the University of Siena, author of Speaking Volumes