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Classics in the modern world : a "democratic turn"? / / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison
| Classics in the modern world : a "democratic turn"? / / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (516 p.) |
| Disciplina | 880.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HardwickLorna
HarrisonStephen J |
| Collana |
Classical Presences
Classical presences |
| Soggetto topico |
Classical literature
Literature, Ancient |
| ISBN |
0-19-102994-7
0-19-176057-9 0-19-165543-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Classics in the Modern World: A �Democratic Turn�?""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction: Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison""; ""1. HAS THERE BEEN A �DEMOCRATIC TURN�? THE CONCEPT OF THE �TURN� IN CULTURAL ANALYSIS""; ""2. THE USE OF THE TERM �DEMOCRATIC�: EMOTIVE? DESCRIPTIVE? OPAQUE?""; ""3. THE �WORLD� THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THE DEBATE IN THIS VOLUME�ANCIENT, MODERN, CONTEMPORARY?""; ""4. THE PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS UNDERLYING THE RESEARCH""; ""5. CONFERENCE DEBATES""
""6. SITUATING THIS PROJECT""""EDITORS� NOTE""; ""Section 1: Controversies and Debates""; ""1: Questioning the Democratic, and Democratic Questioning""; ""1. DEMOCRACY BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ASPIRATION""; ""2. ASPECTS OF DEMOCRACY: AORIST OR IMPERFECT?""; ""3. DEMOCRACY AS (SELF-)CRITIQUE: EDWARD SAID�S HUMANISM""; ""2: Against the �Democratic Turn�: Counter-texts; Counter-contexts; Counter-arguments""; ""1. CONCEPTUAL VALIDITY""; ""First: what do we understand by �turn�? And are there other examples?"" ""2. IS THERE A CRITICAL MASS OF DEMOCRATICALLY ORIENTATED CONTENT AND PRACTICE?""""Trojan Horses""; ""Homer""; ""Thucydides, historiography, and the modern world""; ""3. SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLIC PERSPECTIVES""; ""4. WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A �DEMOCRATIC TURN��AND IS IT FEASIBLE OR EVEN DESIRABLE?""; ""3: The Divided Legacy of Politikon: Democracy and Conflict through Roman Translation""; ""1. A RUPTURED GENEALOGY""; ""2. THE POLITICAL AS CONSENSUS""; ""3. HISTORICAL �RETURN� AS A SITE OF CRITIQUE"" ""4: A Democratic Turn in the Reception of the Roman�Dutch Law of Treason in South Africa?""""5: Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue""; ""1. PLATO IN PROPRIA PERSONA""; ""2. SOCRATIC SOCIALISM?""; ""3. MEANS AND MEDIA""; ""Section 2: Area Study�The United States""; ""6: Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the Making of American Civic Identity""; ""1. CICERO""; ""2. CATO""; ""3. THE LASTING INFLUENCE OF CICERO AND CATO""; ""7: Classics as a Weapon: African Americans and the Fight for Inclusion in American Democracy""; ""1. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL (1819�1898)"" ""2. WILLIAM G. ALLEN""""3. A DEMOCRATIC TURN?""; ""8: Civilization and Savagery at the 1893 World�s Columbian Exposition""; ""1. THE WHITE CITY""; ""2. MACHINERY HALL""; ""3. THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE""; ""4. FAIRGOER RESPONSE: PATTERNS AND POSSIBILITIES""; ""9: The Expansion of Tragedy as Critique""; ""10: Investigating American Women�s Engagements with Graeco-Roman Antiquity, and Expanding the Circle of Classicists""; ""1. DEFINING �BETTER PRACTICES� IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION"" ""2. �CASE IN POINT� FOR TWO CASE STUDIES: AMERICAN WOMEN�S ENGAGEMENTS WITH CLASSICAL STUDIES AND CLASSICISM"" |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996205776003316 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Lucretius and the early modern
| Lucretius and the early modern |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 871/.01 |
| Collana | Classical presences Lucretius and the early modern |
| Soggetto topico |
Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures Languages & Literatures |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Conference papers and proceedings.
Essays. |
| ISBN | 0-19-180715-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Epicurean subversion? : Lucretius's first proem and contemporary Roman culture / Stephen Harrison -- Lucretius in the early modern period : texts and contexts / David Butterfield -- Lucretian naturalism and the evolution of Machiavelli's ethics / Alison Brown -- Poetic flights or retreats? : Latin Lucretian poems in sixteenth-century Italy / Yasmin Haskell -- Lucretius, atheism, and irreligion in Renaissance and early modern Venice / N.S. Davidson -- 'Well said/well thought' : how Montaigne read his Lucretius / Wes Williams -- Michel de Morolles's 1650 French translation of Lucretius and its reception in England / Line Cottegnies -- Lucretianism and some seventeenth-century theories of human origin / William Poole -- Is the De rerum natura a work of natural theology? : some ancient, modern, and early modern perspectives / Nicholas Hardy -- Atheists and republicans : interpreting Lucretius in revolutionary England / David Norbrook -- Political philosophy in a Lucretian mode / Catherine Wilson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157822203321 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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