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Title: Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Antiquity and Tradition

Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Antiquity and Tradition

In Honour of W. J. Henderson

by André Basson (Volume editor) William J. Dominik (Volume editor)
©2003 Edited Collection XII, 355 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

In this volume thirty new studies have been specially commissioned from scholars in seven countries to treat key texts and cultural phenomena from the Homeric age to the medieval period. A wide variety of critical approaches are employed to challenge orthodoxies and to present fresh perspectives on the literature, art and history of classical antiquity, late antiquity and the middle ages. Attractive features of the volume include the treatment of newly emerging areas of inquiry in addition to canonical texts and the representation of views of established international scholars at the forefront of the discipline. A recurrent motif of the volume emerges in the interpretive benefits of combining philological acumen with theoretical and intertextual considerations. This accessible and provocative book will be of interest to classicists, historians, art historians, students of comparative literature, and anyone concerned with the immense cultural legacy of classical Mediterranean civilisation. Greek and Latin quotations are accompanied by translations throughout.

Details

Pages
XII, 355
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631368374
Language
English
Keywords
Latein Aristoteles Literatur Aufsatzsammlung Lucretius Vergil Homer Sophokles schwarzfigurische Vasen Horaz
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2003. XII, 355 pp.

Biographical notes

André Basson (Volume editor) William J. Dominik (Volume editor)

The Editors: A. F. Basson currently holds a visiting adjunct position in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo (State University of New York) and was previously Senior Lecturer in the Department of Greek and Latin Studies at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1996-97 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at Calvin College in Michigan, USA. He has published numerous articles on late antiquity and early Christianity. W. J. Dominik is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Otago. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous other publications on such topics as Statius, Flavian Rome, Roman rhetoric and Roman verse satire; he is also the founding editor of the journal Scholia. He has taught widely in Classics and the Humanities as a faculty member or visiting scholar at the University of Natal, Texas Tech University, the University of Leeds, Monash University and the University of Cambridge.

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