Classics in progress : essays on ancient Greece and Rome

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Classics in progress : essays on ancient Greece and Rome

edited by T.P. Wiseman

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press , Oxford University Press, c2002

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British Academy centenary monographs

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western culture.

Table of Contents

  • Oliver Taplin: Contemporary Poetry and Classics
  • Pat Easterling: A Taste for the Classics
  • Peter Parsons: New Texts and Old Theories
  • R. R. R. Smith: The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History
  • Mary Beard: Ciceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of Letters
  • M. H. Crawford: Discovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw Puzzles
  • Averil Cameron: The 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century Model
  • Alan Bowman: Recolonising Egypt
  • John K. Davies: Greek History: a Discipline in Transformation
  • Paul Cartledge: Greek Civilisation and Slavery
  • Malcolm Schofield: Socrates on Trial in the USA
  • T. P. Wiseman: Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum
  • Jasper Griffin: Look Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15
  • Philip Hardie: Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede
  • Mary Margaret McCabe:
  • Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics
  • Jonathan Barnes: Galen, Christians, Logic
  • Malcolm Heath: Rhetoric in Mid-Antiquity.

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