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Zusatztext This stimulating story of Parthenope's city is taken on the present day in three parts and sixteen chapters. These range through the study of the Temple of the Dioscuri, now part of a church, to early city guidebooks, from the construction of the Metro to the Camorra-controlled rubbish collectors' strike in 2009. Informationen zum Autor Jessica Hughes is a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University.Claudio Buongiovanni is a Research Fellow in Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II. Klappentext This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Zusammenfassung This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors 1: Claudio Buongiovanni and Jessica Hughes: Introduction: Entering the Siren's City 2: Lorenzo Miletti: Setting the Agenda: The Image of Classical Naples in Strabo's Geography and other Ancient Literary Sources 3: Rabun Taylor: The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Mythic Origins of Neapolis 4: Kathryn Lomas: Colonizing the Past: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity in Hellenistic and Roman Naples 5: Mauro De Nardis: Greek Magistrates in Roman Naples? Law and Memory from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD 6: Giovanni Polara: Between Classical and Modern Naples: 'Cultural Forgetting' at the Time of the Gothic War 7: Angela Palmentieri: Marmora Romana in Medieval Naples: Architectural Spolia from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries AD 8: Fulvio Delle Donne: Virgiliana Neapolis urbs: Receptions of Classical Naples in the Swabian and Early Angevin Ages 9: Giancarlo Abbamonte: Naples: A Poets' City and its Attitude towards Virgil and Statius in the Fifteenth Century 10: Bianca de Divitiis: Memories from the Subsoil: Discovering Antiquities in Fifteenth-Century Naples 11: Harald Hendrix: City Branding and the Antique: Naples in Early Modern City Guides 12: Fulvio Lenzo: Ex dirutis marmoribus: The Theatins and the Columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Naples 13: Annalisa Marzano: Reshaping the Past, Shaping the Present: De Jorio and Naples' Classical Heritage 14: Jessica Hughes: 'No Retreat, Even When Broken': Classical Architecture in the Presepe Napoletano 15: Stefano De Caro: Neapolis and the Future of Naples' Museums 16: Luigi Spina: Parthenope on the Metro: or, Links with the Past, on the Journey into the Future Bibliography Index ...
