Classical Bearings

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-20811-7
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

I Precedent, Survival, Metamorphosis: Classical Influences in the Modern World

II Victorian Hellas

III Lesbos and the Genius Loci

IV On the Thanatos Trail

V The Treasures of Egypt
VI Delphic Responses

VII Strepsiades, Socrates, and the Abuses of lntellectualism

VIII Downtreading the Demos

IX Sex and Classical Literature

X The Macedonian Connection

XI After Alexander: Some Historiographical Approaches to the Hellenistic Age

XII Caesar and Alexander: aemulatio, imitatio, comparatio

XIII Carmen et Error: The Enigma of Ovid's Exile

XIV Wit, Sex and Topicality: The Problems Confronting a Translator of Ovid's Love Poetry

XV Juvenal Revisited

XVI Medium and Message Reconsidered: The Changing Functions of Classical Translation

Notes and References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin, and currently Visiting Professor of History at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. His other books available from California include a translation of The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (1997), Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990), Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991), The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (1993), and The Greco-Persian Wars (1996).