Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World

Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World is a collaboration between scholars working on diverse areas and periods of ancient Greco-Roman culture. The volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past.

A propos de l'auteur

James Ker, Ph.D. (2002, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Unversity of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Deaths of Seneca (Oxford, 2009) and also works on ancient Roman concepts of time.

Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008, Bonn University) is Assistant Professor of Latin at Leiden University. He has published Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere. Cristoforo Landinos Xandra zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft (Hildesheim etc., 2008) and is interested in Roman eloquence and memory studies.

Contributors are: Karen Bassi, Lisa Cordes, Joseph Farrell, Caitlin C. Gillespie, Jonas Grethlein, Joseph A. Howley, Casper C. de Jonge, James Ker, Lawrence Kim, Christina S. Kraus, Eleanor Winsor Leach, Maaike Leemreize, Jeremy McInerney, Margaret M. Miles, Sheila Murnaghan, Jason S. Nethercut, Christoph Pieper, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Amanda S. Reiterman, and Mieke de Vos.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: James Ker (Editeur), Christoph Pieper (Editeur)
• Edition: de Gruyter Brill
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 28.05.2014
• EAN: 9789004269231
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26923-1
• Pages: 557
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 34 mm
• Poids: 980 g
• Thème: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité