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Harnesses the insights generated by 30 years of reception studies to enhance the study of classical Greek literature.
List of contents
Introduction Tim Whitmarsh; Section A. Archaic and Classical Poetics: 1. Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar Anna Uhlig; 2 Stesichorus and the Name Game Richard P. Martin; 3. From Epinician Praise to the Poetry of Encomium on Stone: CEG 177, 819, 888-9, and the Hyssaldomus Inscription Ettore Cingano; 4. Geometry of Allusions: The Reception of Earlier Poetry in Aristophanes' Peace Ioannis M. Konstantakos; Section B. Classical Philosophy and Rhetoric, and their Reception: 5. On Coming After Socrates Laura Viidebaum; 6. Chimeras of Classicism in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Reception of the Athenian Funeral Orations Johanna Hanink; 7. 'Our Mind went to the Platonic Charmides': The Reception of Plato's Charmides in Wilde, Cavafy and Plutarch Timothy Duff; 8. Naked Apes, Featherless Chickens, and Talking Pigs: Adventures in the Platonic History of Body-hair and other Human Attributes Alastair J. L. Blanshard; Section C. Hellenistic and Roman Poetics: 9. Before the Canon: The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Hellenistic Poetry Annette Harder; 10. Pun-fried Concoctions: Wor(l)d-Blending in the Roman Kitchen Emily Gowers; 11. Powerful Presences: Horace's Carmen Saeculare and Hellenistic Choral Traditions Giovan Battista D'Alessio; Section D. Multimedia and Intercultural Receptions in the Second Sophistic and Beyond: 12. Received into Dance? Parthenius' Er¿tika Path¿mata in the Pantomime Idiom Ismene Lada-Richards; 13. Sappho in Pieces Susan A. Stephens; 14. Hesiodic Rhapsody: The Sibylline Oracles Helen Van Noorden; 15. Homer and the Precarity of Tradition: Can Jesus be Achilles? Simon Goldhill.
About the author
Marco Fantuzzi is a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Roehampton. His most recent book is an edition of the Rhesus attributed to Euripides for Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (2020).Helen Morales is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (2020). She is co-editor of Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature.Tim Whitmarsh is the Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of over 80 articles and 9 books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015), and edits the Oxford Classical Dictionary. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Summary
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of studies of classical literature over the last 30 years. This volume, containing essays by 15 internationally renowned scholars, builds on the critical insights gained from this revolution to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself.
