Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII /

Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII /

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...

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Other Authors: Ker, James, 1970-, Pieper, Christoph.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 369.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Values > Greece > Philosophy > Congresses.
Values > Rome > Philosophy > Congresses.
History > Philosophy > Congresses.
Time perception > Congresses.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C. > Congresses.
Rome > Civilization > Congresses.

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Call Number: DF77 .V26 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • James Ker and Christoph Pieper
  • General Introduction: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity /
  • James Ker and Christoph Pieper
  • Pelasgians and Leleges: Using the Past to Understand the Present /
  • Jeremy McInerney
  • The Egyptian Past in the Roman Present /
  • Maaike Leemreize
  • The Roman Suburbium and the Roman Past /
  • Joseph Farrell
  • Burnt Temples in the Landscape of the Past /
  • Margaret M. Miles
  • Keimêlia in Context: Toward an Understanding of the Value of Antiquities in the Past /
  • Amanda S. Reiterman
  • Croesus' Offerings and the Value of the Past in Herodotus' Histories /
  • Karen Bassi
  • The Creation of Anachronism: Assessing Ancient Valor in Sophocles' Ajax /
  • Sheila Murnaghan
  • Long Ago and Far Away ... The Uses of the Past in Tacitus' Minora /
  • Christina S. Kraus
  • M. Atilius Regulus-Making Defeat into Victory: Diverse Values in an Ambivalent Story /
  • Eleanor Winsor Leach
  • Agrippina the Younger: Tacitus' Unicum Exemplum /
  • Caitlin C. Gillespie
  • Si te nostra tulissent saecula: Comparison with the Past as a Means of Glorifying the Present in Domitianic Panegyric /
  • Lisa Cordes
  • The Value of the Past Challenged: Myth and Ancient History in the Attic Orators /
  • Jonas Grethlein
  • Archaizing and Classicism in the Literary Historical Thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus /
  • Lawrence Kim
  • The Attic Muse and the Asian Harlot: Classicizing Allegories in Dionysius and Longinus /
  • Casper C. de Jonge
  • From Lesbos She Took Her Honeycomb: Sappho and the 'Female Tradition' in Hellenistic Poetry /
  • Mieke de Vos
  • Ennius and the Revaluation of Traditional Historiography in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura /
  • Jason S. Nethercut
  • Valuing the Mediators of Antiquity in the Noctes Atticae /
  • Joseph A. Howley
  • Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity by Means of Allegoresis /
  • Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
  • Indexes /
  • James Ker and Christoph Pieper.