Antiquity Now

Author : Thomas E. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316297837
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquity Now written by Thomas E. Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity explains itself to itself through ever-expanding technologies and media. Antiquity Now thus examines the often-surprising redeployment of the art and literature of the ancient world, a geography charged with especial value in the contemporary imagination.

Author : Aliki Barnstone
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805209972
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now written by Aliki Barnstone and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1992-04-28 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.

Author : James B. Cuno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691137124
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Owns Antiquity? written by James B. Cuno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.

Author : John R. Love
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134946090
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquity and Capitalism written by John R. Love and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious study which addresses the classic questions of the emergence, flowering and decline of ancient civilization from a fresh perspective - that of the great German sociologist Max Weber.

Author : Laurent Pernot
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813214076
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in Antiquity written by Laurent Pernot and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics

Author : Anne T. Woollett
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066706
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rubens written by Anne T. Woollett and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study devoted to classical art’s vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life. Including 170 color illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens’s remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book’s lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens’s study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from November 10, 2021, to January 24, 2022.

Author : Craig S. Walker
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155111139X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume 1: From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century written by Craig S. Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical and theatrical landscape of that period. Contextualization for each play is provided through a thorough account of the literary and dramatic background of the play along with clear and comprehensive annotation. In addition, the editors have provided a glossary of terms used in the anthology to better equip students with a vocabulary for discussing the world of the stage.

Author : Gregory S. Aldrete
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350100536
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow of Antiquity written by Gregory S. Aldrete and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg and Alicia Aldrete demonstrate just how much ancient Greece and Rome have influenced and shaped our world today in ways both large and small. From the more commonly known influences on politics, law, literature and timekeeping through to the everyday rituals and routines we take for granted when we exercise, dine, marry and dress, we are rooted in the ancient world. Even the political upheaval, celebrity obsession and blurring of public and private boundaries that we see in current news betray ancient characteristics - now brought to the fore here in a new final chapter. If you have ever wondered how far exactly we still walk in the footsteps of the ancients or wanted to understand how study of the classical world can inform and explain our lives today, this is the book for you.

Author : Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity ... Also, the Antiquity of Presbytery; including an account of the ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick, etc written by Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorine Emery
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163867843X
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Antiquity's Covered Bridge written by Dorine Emery and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquity's Covered Bridge By: Dorine Emery Dorine Emery is an avid photographer of covered bridges. She began in her local area in New Jersey but knew the LC Beavens bridge in New Milford, Pennsylvania, was a must-see. It was Emery’s fascination with the mountain that rises to the east of Mylert Creek and the bridge she knew was there that led her to Antiquity’s Covered Bridge. History and imagination are woven like the ivy vines on a latticed bridge, facts and fiction which Emery has found on and around the Nevermore area of New Milford. Fiction based on facts, then enhanced by pseudo possibilities might describe mystery within. Not without humor—it is Nevermore who owns Antiquity’s bridge, nor without tragedy—that of Janie’s sorrow over her dear Andrew and their baby, Cheri, Antiquity’s Covered Bridge is a story to be pondered at a moderate pace.