• Media type: Book; Conference Proceedings
  • Title: Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
  • Contains: General introduction : valuing antiquity in antiquity / James Ker and Christoph PieperPART 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.
  • Contributor: Ker, James [Other]
  • Event: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values
  • imprint: Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2014
  • Published in: Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum ; 369
  • Extent: X, 547 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9789004269231
  • RVK notation: FB 4060 : griechisch und römisch (antike)
  • Keywords: Antike > Vergangenheit > Kollektives Gedächtnis
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Papers presented at the Penn Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values VII, entitled "Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity," Leiden University, June, 15-16, 2012

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