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Title The classical heritage in France / edited by Gerald Sandy
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 588 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 109
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 109. 0920-8607
Contents Introduction; Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550-1800; France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts; Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France; Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study; Erasmus and Paris; Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance; François Rabelais; Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse; Plutarch's Lives; Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel; Under the Shadow of Socrates; Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Longinus' On the SublimeClassical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France; The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France; The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry; Fables: Aesop and Babrius; Drama; The Classical Heritage in French Architecture; Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index
Summary A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-567) and index
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Civilization -- Greek influences
Civilization -- Roman influences
Antike
Rezeption
Literatur
Französisch
Geschichte
Kunst
Klassieke oudheid.
Het klassieke.
Receptie.
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- Greek influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001122
France -- Civilization -- Roman influences
Subject France
Römisches Reich
Griechenland Altertum
Frankreich
Französisch.
Form Electronic book
Author Sandy, Gerald N
ISBN 1417536527
9781417536528
1280464488
9781280464485
9786610464487
6610464480