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Classics
José B. Torres Guerra
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Classics
Thomas A. Schmitz
Summary: Aristophanes' Frogs, performed in 405 BCE, is a significant milestone in Greek cultural history, demonstrating the establishment of a literary canon in Athens. The paper explores the transition in the perception of tragedy in Athens through the deaths of Euripides and Sophocles, as well as the rise of a reading culture. It makes use of Jan Assmann's concept of transition from ritual to textual continuity to analyze the process of the canonization of 'classical' tragedy.
JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES
(2023)
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Classics
Jonathan Barlow
Summary: This article focuses on the influence of Greek ethics on the life of Scipio Aemilianus, the leading statesman of the Roman Republic in the second half of the second century BC. The author argues that the Stoic philosopher Panaetius of Rhodes, Scipio's friend and tutor, characterized Scipio as influenced by the Stoic way of living and as a Roman example of greatness of soul. This argument is supported by evidence from Cicero's de Officiis Books 1-2 and Polybius' Histories.
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Classics
Travis Mulroy
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Classics
Alastair Daly
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Classics
Heiko Westphal
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Classics
Simon Varga
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Classics
Joshua M. Paul
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Classics
Douglas Cairns, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis
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Classics
Tomasz Mojsik
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Classics
Sanderijn Gijbels, Raf Van Rooy
Summary: This paper provides a detailed analysis of the particle 'ποῦ' in Attic drama, suggesting that it indicates indirect personal evidentiality and serves as a pragmatic, intersubjective particle to establish or maintain common ground.
SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES
(2023)
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Classics
Anna Motta
CLASSICAL QUARTERLY
(2023)
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Classics
Luca Valle Salazar
Summary: This article discusses the social and psychological aspects involved in two of Odysseus' lying tales. It analyzes the narrative and psychological features of Odysseus' fake memories and explores their social functions in the epic.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Luis Unceta Gomez
Summary: This article analyzes the erotic framing of the naked and near-naked bodies of enslaved people in cinematic representation of Rome. It explores the gender dynamics, the representation of liberation and sexual license, and the power dynamics operating in these films. It also examines how these films associate pleasure regimes with systems of domination and submission.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Liana Giannakopoulou
Summary: In "Iphigenia says no", Anghelaki-Rooke critiques the myth of Iphigenia's sacrifice to challenge the authority of traditional myths, advocating for a feminist poetics that empowers women. The choice of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and the focus on the chorus convey an anti-war message, influenced by the feminist anti-war stance, the Cold War peace movements, archaeological excavations, classical reworkings in popular films, and the national curriculum.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Ben Gregson
Summary: This article examines the classicisms of Jamaican writer Claude McKay, analyzing his challenging of the classical notion of translatio imperii et studii. McKay rejects empire but embraces classical studium as a potential source of racial uplift and new creative expression. He enlists various classical traditions to attack empire while reaffirming the aesthetic and social potential of decolonized and heterogeneous antiquities.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Chen Rongnyu, Li Huiqin
Summary: This article compares two Chinese opera adaptations of Sophocles' Antigone, analyzing their different strategies of adaptation and their engagement with Chinese cultural elements. The article focuses on "Thebes City" and highlights its successful hybridization of ancient Chinese and Greek cultures, as well as its depiction of ghosts. It concludes that adaptations of Greek drama in Chinese opera privilege creativity and performability over fidelity to the original text, and observes that the hybridized mode, as seen in "Thebes City," is the most difficult to succeed with.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Mikolaj Getka-Kenig
Summary: Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier's design for the Temple of Providence in Warsaw is the earliest evidence of European fascination with the Parthenon as a model for modern commemorative architecture. Its specific political context, as a reaction to the destructive tendencies of the French Revolution, makes it even more interesting. The choice of the Parthenon represents Choiseul-Gouffier's admiration for the ancient aristocratic republicanism and its alleged relevance to the political culture of the modern 'republic' of Poland-Lithuania.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Caterina Domeneghini
Summary: This study reevaluates Everyman's Library, a mass-market series of world 'classics' launched by British publisher J. M. Dent & Sons in 1906. The study challenges the misconception that reprint series like Everyman's Library were not open to innovation. Instead, it argues that 'liveliness' and 'timeliness' were crucial attributes for 'classics' during the interwar years. The study explores the marketing tactics used by Everyman's Library and the American Modern Library to blur the boundaries between 'classic' and 'modern'.
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Classics
John Henry
