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A Companion to Classical Receptions
“It is impossible in a short review to do justice to every single contribution of this multifaceted volume. One of the many attractive features of this collection is that it offers not only innovative essays about the reception and translation of the most read authors of antiquity … but also expands the horizon of the reception studies by introducing into the discussion untraditional themes and providing original approaches to the concepts frequently discussed in the context of reception.” (The Classical Outlook, Fall 2008) "This volume is an essential introduction to reception studies for both school and university students … .Written in an accessible and engaging manner with useful sections for further reading." (Journal of Classics Teaching, Autumn 2008) "…importantly, this volume exemplifies the recent boom in reception studies, and its potential to critique our subject and methodology." (Greece and Rome, Vol 55 No. 2 2008) "The scale of this enterprise is such that the complete collection will compete with established reference works … and should prove useful." (Scholia Reviews, 2008) "Hardwick and Stray's Companion pushes lingering worries about elitism and irrelevance right off the table. Companion offers bold reasons to treat classical studies as the cosmopolitan glue of the postmodern world. The book sparkles with the excitement that makes A Companion to Classical Receptions such an eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008) "Bursting-at-the-seams … An eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement) "A spectacular volume from the massive series of 'Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World' … The editors have pulled in a wider splay of trades and topics than any of their companions' companions or their own now mushrooming rivals can boast." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "There is sufficient careful scholarship, critical analysis, and contextualisation in this collection to warrant the claim that it provides a sophisticated and far-ranging overview of this burgeoning and dynamic field." (Scholia)
Lorna Hardwick (Edited by), Christopher Stray (Edited by)
9781444339222, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 November 2010
560 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.1 cm, 0.98 kg
"This variegated and sizeable volume has for me been stimulating and informative, a pleasure to read for review . . . The ‘future paths' he proposes seem to me to amount to different configurations of intellectual history, so no surprises there; but his clear statement of the opportunities offered by reception studies in the classroom is admirable, and his call for ‘a new kind of classicist-academic: the engaged public intellectual' is visionary. " (Translation and Literature, 2011)
Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.
List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xviii Introduction: Making Connections 1 Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11 1 Reception and Tradition 13 2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26 3 Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art 38 4 ‘Respectable in Its Ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50 5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62 Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73 6 ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology 75 7 Gladstone and the Classics 86 8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98 9 Virgilian Contexts 113 Part III Translation 127 10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope’s Iliad 129 11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141 12 ‘Enough Give in It’: Translating the Classical Play 153 13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168 Part IV Theory and Practice 183 14 ‘Making It New’: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth 185 15 ‘What Difference Was Made?’: Feminist Models of Reception 195 16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207 17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219 Part V Performing Arts 229 18 Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: ‘Apolline’ and ‘Dionysiac’ Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231 19 Performance Histories 247 20 ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259 21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274 22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287 Part VI Film 301 23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303 24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315 25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327 Part VII Cultural Politics 343 26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345 27 ‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia 360 28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373 29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386 Part VIII Changing Contexts 399 30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401 31 ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’: SF and the Classics 415 32 Aristotle’s Ethics, Old and New 428 33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440 34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452 Part IX Reflection and Critique 467 35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469 Bibliography 482 Index 533
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold
Barbara Graziosi
Chris Emlyn-Jones
Thomas Harrison
Ruth Webb
Seth L. Schein
David W. Bebbington
Emily Greenwood
Stephen Harrison
David Hopkins
Ahmed Etman
J. Michael Walton
James Robson
Cashman Kerr Prince
Vanda Zajko
Miriam Leonard
Pantelis Michelakis
Michael Ewans
Fiona Macintosh
Angeliki Varakis
Freddy Decreus
Nurit Yaari
Joanna Paul
Hanna M. Roisman
Marianne McDonald
Catharine Edwards
Gonda Van Steen
Betine van Zyl Smit
Edith Hall
Gregson Davis
Sarah Annes Brown
Rosalind Hursthouse
Bryan E. Burns
Elizabeth Vandiver
James I. Porter
Subject Areas: History [HB]
