The Classical Heritage in France

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-11916-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 109, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This book, written by eighteen specialists, deals with the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is intended for those interested in classical influences on French belles-lettres and visual arts.
Readers will benefit from the comprehensive surveys provided by specialists on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, Jacques Amyot's contribution to the reinvention of the novel in the West and the influence of ancient law in France.
Major literary genres and themes, philosophy, major writers, early French humanists and Hellenists and the visual arts all receive detailed, up-to-date treatment.

Contributors include: Olga Augustinos, Alain Billault, Jean Braybrook, Paola Cifarelli, Michèle Ducos, Sue Farquhar, Philip Ford, A. Trevor Hodge, George Huppert, Gillian Jondorf, John Parkin, Laurence Plazenet, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Ofelia Salgado, Gerald Sandy, Alison Saunders, Douglas Thomson, and Valerie Worth-Stylianou.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandy, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550–1800, Olga Augustinos
2. France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts, Ofelia Salgado
3. Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France, Gerald Sandy
4. Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study, Gerald Sandy
5. Erasmus and Paris, Douglas Thomson
6. Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance, Valerie Worth-Stylianou
7. François Rabelais, John Parkin
8. Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse, Sue Farquhar
9. Plutarch’s Lives, Alain Billault
10. Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel, Laurence Plazenet
11. Under the Shadow of Socrates, George Huppert
12. Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Michèle Ducos
13. Longinus’ On the Sublime, Alain Billault
14. Classical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France, Philip Ford
15. The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France, Jean Braybrook
16. The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry, Patricia Rosenmeyer
17. Fables: Aesop and Babrius, Paola Cifarelli
18. Drama, Gillian Jondorf
19. The Classical Heritage in French Architecture, A. Trevor Hodge
20. Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage, Alison Saunders

Bibliography
Index of Names
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald Sandy, Ph.D. (1968), is Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on the ancient novel, Latin and Greek literature and the classical heritage including The Greek World of Apuleius (Brill, 1998).