Classics in the modern world [electronic resource] : a 'democratic turn'? / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison.

'Classics in the Modern World' explores the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of the ancient world. Exploring the relationship between Greek and Roman ways of thinking and modern definitions of democratic practices and approaches, it enables a wider re-evaluation...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hardwick, Lorna (Editor)
Harrison, S. J. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Classical presences.
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Variant Title:
Classics in the Modern World: A "democratic Turn"?
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning / Katherine Harloe
  • Against the 'democratic turn' : counter-texts; counter-contexts; counter-arguments / Lorna Hardwick
  • The divided legacy of Politikon : democracy and confict through Roman translation / Alexandra Lianeri
  • A democratic turn in the reception of the Roman-Dutch law of treason in South Africa? / John Hilton
  • Labour and the classics : Plato and Crossman in dialogue / Michael Simpson
  • Appropriations of Cicero and Cato in the making of American civic identity / Barbara Lawatsch Melton
  • Classics as a weapon : African Americans and the fight for inclusion in American democracy / Margaret Malamud
  • Civilization and savagery at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition / Robert Davis
  • The expansion of tragedy as critique / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
  • Investigating American women's engagements with Graeco-Roman antiquity, and expanding the circle of classicists / Judith P. Hallett
  • The democratic turn in (and through) pedagogy : a case study of the Cambridge Latin course / Joanna Paul
  • Classics in West African education : the rhetoric of colonial commissions / Barbara Goff
  • Back to the Demos : an 'anti-classical' approach to classics?
  • Martina Treu
  • Can 'democratic' modern staging of ancient drama be 'authentic'? / Mary-Kay Gamel
  • Demotic power to the people : the triumph of Dimotiki, the triumph of Medea / Anastasia Bakogianni
  • Aristophanic performance as an all-inclusive event : audience participation and celebration in the modern staging of Aristophanic comedy / Angeliki Varakis
  • Constructing bridges for peace and tolerance : Ancient Greek drama on the Israeli stage / Nurit Yaari
  • The silence of Eurydice : case study for a 'topology of democracy' / Dorinda Hulton
  • Ovidian metamorphoses in the fiction of A.S. Byatt / Fiona Cox
  • Catullus and Lesbia translated in women's historical novels / Elena Theodorakopoulos
  • Female voices : the democratic turn in Ali Smith's classical reception / FIona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos
  • Heroes or villains : the Gracchi, reform, and the nineteenth-century press / Sarah Butler
  • Democracy and popular media : classical receptions in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century political cartoons : statesmen, mythological figures, and celebrated artworks / Alexandre G. Mitchell
  • Practising classical reception studies 'in the round' : mass media engagements with antiquity and the 'democratic turn' towards the audience / Amanda Wrigley
  • In search of ancient myths : documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world / Antony Makrinos
  • Truth, justice, and the Spartan way : freedom and democracy in Frank Miller's 300 / George A. Kovacs
  • A 'democratic turn' at the Ashmolean Museum / Susan Walker
  • All mod cons? Power, openness and text in the digital turn / Elton Barker.