Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII / edited by James Ker, Christoph Pieper.
Material type: TextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; ; volume 369.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (page cm)Content type:- text
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- Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. -- Congresses
- Rome -- Civilization -- Congresses
- Values -- Greece -- Philosophy -- Congresses
- Values -- Rome -- Philosophy -- Congresses
- History -- Philosophy -- Congresses
- Time perception -- Congresses
- Grèce -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C. -- Congrès
- Rome -- Civilisation -- Congrès
- Perception du temps -- Congrès
- HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece
- Civilization
- History -- Philosophy
- Time perception
- Values -- Philosophy
- Greece
- Rome (Empire)
- To 146 B.C
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Papers presented at the Penn Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values VII, entitled "Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity," Leiden University, June, 15-16, 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General introduction : valuing antiquity in antiquity / James Ker and Christoph Pieper -- PART 1. LOCATING THE PAST IN PEOPLES OR PLACES -- Pelasgians and Leleges : using the past to understand the present / Jeremy McInerney -- The Egyptian past in the Roman present / Maaike Leemreize -- The Roman suburbium and the Roman past / Joseph Farrell -- PART 2. ENCOUNTERING THE PAST THROUGH MATERIAL OBJECTS -- Burnt temples in the landscape of the past / Margaret M. Miles -- Keimelia in context : toward an understanding of the value of antiquities in the past / Amanda S. Reiterman -- Croesus' offerings and the value of the past in Herodotus' histories / Karen Bassi -- PART 3. PERSONS SEEMING TO EMBODY AN ANCIENT ETHOS -- The creation of anachronism : assessing ancient valor in Sophocles' Ajax / Sheila Murnaghan -- Long ago and far away ... the uses of the past in Tacitus' Minora / Christina S. Kraus -- M. Atilius Regulus-making defeat into victory : diverse values in an ambivalent story / Eleanor Winsor Leach -- PART 4. THE PRESENT DISTANCED FROM PAST EXAMPLES -- Agrippina the Younger : Tacitus' Unicum Exemplum / Caitlin C. Gillespie -- Si te nostra tulissent saecula : comparison with the past as a means of glorifying the present in Domitianic Panegyric / Lisa Cordes -- The value of the past challenged : myth and ancient history in the Attic orators / Jonas Grethlein -- PART 5. THE ARCHAIC PAST IN LITERARY HISTORY -- Archaizing and classicism in the literary historical thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Lawrence Kim -- The Attic muse and the Asian harlot : classicizing allegories in Dionysius and Longinus / Casper C. de Jonge -- From Lesbos she took her honeycomb : Sappho and the "female tradition" in Hellenistic poetry / Mieke de Vos -- Ennius and the revaluation of traditional historiography in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura / Jason S. Nethercut -- PART 6. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOURSES -- Valuing the mediators of antiquity in the Noctes Atticae / Joseph A. Howley -- Valuing antiquity in antiquity by means of allegoresis / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.
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Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World is a collaboration between scholars working on diverse areas and periods of ancient Greco-Roman culture. The volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past.
English.
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