Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World

Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26923-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 369, 547 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 980 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past from approximately the fifth century BCE until the second century CE. It examines how specific communities used notions of antiquity to define themselves or others, which models from the past proved most desirable, what literary or exegetic modes they employed, and how temporal systems for ascribing value intersected with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the application of aesthetic criteria.

Zielgruppe

All interested in Classics and Classical Tradition, and anyone concerned with concepts of cultural canon forming and temporal organization of value.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pieper, Christoph

Ker, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

James Ker, Ph.D. (2002, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Unversity of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Deaths of Seneca (Oxford, 2009) and also works on ancient Roman concepts of time.

Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008, Bonn University) is Assistant Professor of Latin at Leiden University. He has published Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere. Cristoforo Landinos Xandra zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft (Hildesheim etc., 2008) and is interested in Roman eloquence and memory studies.

Contributors are: Karen Bassi, Lisa Cordes, Joseph Farrell, Caitlin C. Gillespie, Jonas Grethlein, Joseph A. Howley, Casper C. de Jonge, James Ker, Lawrence Kim, Christina S. Kraus, Eleanor Winsor Leach, Maaike Leemreize, Jeremy McInerney, Margaret M. Miles, Sheila Murnaghan, Jason S. Nethercut, Christoph Pieper, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Amanda S. Reiterman, and Mieke de Vos.