Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part I Antiquity and the Enlightenment: inventing the present. Introduction / Mark Golden and Peter Tooley. Towards a history of body history / Amy Richun. Painters and pederasts: ancient art, sexuality, and social history / Martin Kilmer. Trimalchio₋b2₋ss constipation: periodization, madness, eros, and time / Peter Tooley. Philosophy, friendship, and cultural history / David Konstan. Continuity and change in Roman social history: retrieving ₋b1₋sfamily feeling(s)' from Roman law and literature / Suzanne Dixon
- Part II Reconstructing the past: the practice of periodization. Introduction / Mark Golden and Peter Tooley. Periodization and the heroes: inventing a dark age / Ian Morris. Reconstructing change: ideology and the Eleusinian mysteries / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. The problem of periodization: the case of the Peloponnesian War / Barry S. Strauss. Change or continuity?: children and childhood in Hellenistic historiography / Mark Golden. Did Roman women have an empire? / Phyllis Culham.