| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
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Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Beyond Greece and Rome -- Travel -- Classical Reception -- Contemporary Eastern Interests -- Barbarians -- Part I. Routes of Reception -- 1. The Well-Thumbed Attic Muse: Cicero and the Reception of Xenophon's Persia in the Early Modern Period -- Cicero on Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Oeconomicus -- Cicero in Renaissance Schools -- Humanist Readings of Xenophon through Cicero -- Conclusion |
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2. Zoanne Pencaro, an Early Modern Italian Reader of the Ancient Near East in Herodotus -- 3. From 'Custom is King' to 'Custom is a Metal': The Early Modern Afterlife of Ancient Scythian Culture -- The Classical Scythians and Their Later Incarnations -- The Trials of Custom in the Renaissance -- Herodotus: The Sovereignty of Custom and Two Scythian Honour Killings -- Lucian: A Contest of Greek and Scythian Customs -- Edmund Spenser: Bending Custom in Ireland -- 4. Reading Ancient Fables from the East: Pierre-Daniel Huet's Two-Origin Aetiology of Romance -- Part II. Materials and Traces |
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5. Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers' Accounts -- 6. Antiquarianism in the Near East: Thomas Smith (1638-1710) and his Journey to the Seven Churches of Asia -- Introduction: From Oxford to Asia Minor -- Septem Asiae Ecclesiarum Notitia (1672-1716) in Context -- The Uses of the Ancient Near East: Smith's Motivations and His Readership -- 7. Journeying to an Antique Christian Past: Holy Land Pilgrimage Narratives in the Era of the Reformation -- Pilgrimage Treatises -- Locating Christ in the Holy Land -- The Reformation Context -- Re-Rooting the Catholic Faith |
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Conclusion -- Part III. Refiguring Sources -- 8. Richard Verstegan and the Symbol of Babylon in the Early Modern Period -- The Tower I: Language -- The Tower II: Tyranny -- The Harlot -- The Exile -- Cities Real and Imaginary -- 9. Casting Models: Female Exempla of the Ancient Near East in Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Gallery Books (1642-62) -- Artemisia -- Tomyris -- Zenobia -- Conclusion -- 10. Assyria in Early Modern Historiography -- Assyria as Transmitted Knowledge -- Giovanni Boccaccio -- Johannes Carion and Philip Melanchthon -- Sir Walter Ralegh |
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11. Alexander the Great in Early Modern English Drama -- Heroic Alexander -- Corpsing Alexander -- 12. Crises of Self and Succession: Cambyses in the English Theatre 1560-1667 -- Herodotus' Cambyses and the Early English Theatre -- Preston's Early Elizabethan Cambises between Morality and History Play -- The Evasive Diplomacy of Settle's Restoration Cambyses -- Conclusion: Cambyses and the Divided English Self -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Classical reception in early modern Europe is often perceived in modern scholarship as being dominated by engagements with Greece and Rome. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by collectively arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe as part of a wider classical world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
European literature -- Asian influences -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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European literature -- Classical influences -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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European literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Antiquities
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Literature
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- In literature
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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| Subject |
Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grogan, Jane (Lecturer in English literature), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191079849 |
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0191079847 |
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9780191821301 |
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0191821306 |
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