Classics in Progress

Presents a collection of essays by contemporary classicists, revealing different discoveries, interpretations and ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. The chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery.

Anyone who questions whether there remains value in studying ancient Greeks and Romans need only consult almost any page of this volume to find a discipline that, far from dead, is kicking and scratching as it continues to grow.

Klappentext
This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. 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.


Zusammenfassung
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 history.

Inhalt
Contemporary Poetry and Classics
A Taste for the Classics
New Texts and Old Theories
The Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient History
Ciceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of Letters
Discovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw Puzzles
The 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century Model
Recolonising Egypt
Greek History: a Discipline in Transformation
Greek Civilisation and Slavery
Socrates on Trial in the USA
Roman History and the Ideological Vacuum
Look Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15
Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede
; Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics
Galen, Christians, Logic
Rhetoric in Mid-Antiquity

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