• Media type: Book
  • Title: Classics in the modern world : a democratic turn?
  • Contains: Questioning the democratic, and democratic questioning / Katherine HarloeAgainst 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.
  • Contributor: Hardwick, Lorna [Hrsg.]; Harrison, Stephen [Other]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013
  • Published in: Classical presences
  • Issue: 1. ed.
  • Extent: XXXVII, 477 S.; Ill; cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0199673926; 9780199673926
  • RVK notation: FB 5701 : Beziehungen zu anderen Literaturen, Nachwirken
  • Keywords: Antike > Rezeption > Moderne > Demokratie
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  • Footnote: Literatur- und Webverz. S. [433] - 474
  • Description: '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 of the role of classics in the modern world

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