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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780551803321

Titolo

Classics for all [[electronic resource] ] : reworking antiquity in mass culture / / edited by Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-03567-3

9786612035678

1-4438-0430-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LoweDunstan

ShahabudinKim

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Antiquities in popular culture

Popular culture - Classical influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held at University of Reading, April 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Classical culture belongs to us all: whether as academic subject or as entertainment, it constantly stimulates new ideas. In recent years, following Gladiator's successful revival of the 'toga epic', studies of the ancient world in cinema have drawn increasing attention from authors and readers. This collection builds on current interest in this topic, taking its readers past the usual boundaries of classical reception studies into less familiar-and even uncharted-areas of ancient Greece and ...