Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
Classical Scholarship and Its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Ho…
by Hall, Edith, Harrison, Stephen, Stray, Christopher, Clarke, Michael, Pelling, Christopher, Elsner, Jaś, Kaster, Robert A., Butterfield, David, Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina, Gibson, Roy, Briggs, Ward, Hallett, Judith P., Clackson, James, Hardwick, Lorna, Whitaker, Graham
fromTrends in Classics - Scholarship in the Making
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the…
Classical scholarship and its history: from the Renaissance to the present : essays in h…
by Hall, Edith, Stray, Christopher, Clarke, Michael, Elsner, Jaś, Kaster, Robert A., Butterfield, David, Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina, Gibson, Roy, Briggs, Ward, Hallett, Judith P., Clackson, James, Hardwick, Lorna, Whitaker, Graham
fromTrends in Classics - Scholarship in the Making
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the…
"This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public proper…
Timeline of Tony Harrison's classics-informed works -- 'Models of eloquence' : radical classicism -- 'Stone bodies' : statuary in The loiners (1970) and Palladas (1975) -- 'Frontiers of appetite' : Phaedra Britannica (1975) -- 'Shaggermemnon' : Aeschylus' Oresteia and Continuous…
"This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public proper…
"This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public proper…
"This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public proper…
"Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction si…