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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
