The study of ancient Greek and Roman in their presence and influence on post-classical times and places, not least in the West.
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Stephen Beall deposited Christi Praecones: Advice for Latin Teachers from the First Jesuit Schools in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoA summary and contemporary application of the pedagogical handbook of Joseph Jouvancy, S.J. (1643-1719)
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Elodie Paillard deposited Looking for Sociolects in Classical Greek Tragedy: A Digital Tool for Measuring Linguistic/Discursive Complexity in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis paper re-examines the question of the presence of distinct sociolects in Classical Athenian tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides). While the general idea is that all characters in tragedy spoke a similar language, without much distinction between sociolects that could have marked their socio-political status, some recent research has…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 months, 4 weeks agoAncient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek thought and C…[Read more]
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Elodie Paillard deposited Greek to Latin and Back: Did Roman Theatre Change Greek Theatre? in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoChapter on the interactions between Roman theatrical tradition and late dramatic production in Greek language.
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Elodie Paillard deposited “Theatre”, “Paratheatre”, “Metatheatre”: What are we talking about? in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoIntroductory chapter to the collective volume ‘Theatre and Metatheare: Definitions, Problems, Limits’
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Elodie Paillard deposited Theatre and Metatheatre: Definitions, Problems, Limits in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThe aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many differe…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Revolution, Trauer, Tragik. Der zweite Teil der „Dziady” von Adam Mickiewicz als Trauerspiel in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoDer Vergleich der Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution auf die Literatur und Kultur in Polen und in den deutschen Staaten ist sehr schwierig. Die polnischen Schriftsteller und Denker der ersten und zweiten Romantikergeneration sind zu spät geboren worden, um Zeugen der Französichen Revolution zu sein. Für die Älteren, wie Kazimierz Brod…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classicism, and The Small Back Room in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThe film The Small Back Room was written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and released in 1949. It is the wartime tale of an injured and embittered back-room scientist, who is recruited to help combat a new kind of explosive device. Based on Nigel Balchin’s 1943 novel, the film significantly alters the story’s climactic seq…[Read more]
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Elodie Paillard deposited The Structural Evolution of Fifth-Century Athenian Society: Archaeological Evidence and Literary Sources in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoThe structure of fifth-century Athenian society remains largely unknown, as is the distribution of its citizens into different socio-political categories. Ancient literary sources mostly describe a society divided into élite and poor. However, the model of a society alternately dominated by
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Elodie Paillard deposited Secondary Characters’ Rhetorical Skills in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 12 months agoThis chapter examines the rhetorical skills displayed by secondary (low–status)
characters in the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. “Rhetorical
skills” are here broadly understood as the abilities required to have one’s voice heard and
one’s opinion taken into account. These speaking abilities contribute to the socio–pol…[Read more] -
Maciej Junkiert deposited Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis article describes how the Polish intellectuals G.E. Groddeck (1763–1825) and Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) referenced and analysed events connected with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It aims to show how treatments of ancient Athens changed after 1795, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to be an independent count…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited L‘archéologie sans objets et la poésie des objets : romantisme et postromantisme polonais in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoLe romantisme constitue un moment où, dans le cas de la littérature polonaise, la nation est créée en tant qu’imagined community, pour reprendre la formule classique de Benedict Anderson. L’exploration du passé, conformément aux règles de l’historicisme romantique inspiré principalement des penseurs allemands tels que Friedrich Schiller et F…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Nowi Grecy. Historyzm polskich romantyków wobec narodzin Altertumswissenschaft in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThe purpose of this book is to analyse the role which the development of the German Altertumswissenschaft at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries had (in combination with the English-French intellectual base) on the birth of the Romantic reception of the ancient traditions in Poland.
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Premessa agli atti del convegno di Chiavari 2017 in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoQuesto volume è il frutto della concreta collaborazione tra la SIAC e il Centro di Studi sulla Fortuna dell’Antico “Emanuele Narducci” di Sestri Levante. Le due istituzioni, insieme con il Liceo “Marconi-Delpino” di Chiavari e “Mediaterraneo S.R.L.” di Sestri Levante, hanno, infatti, proficuamente cooperato per la promozione delle XIV Giornate d…[Read more]
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Review for Ciceroniana On Line: F. Prost in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoF. Prost, Quintus Cicéron, Petit Manuel de la campagne électorale – Marcus Cicéron, lettres à son frère Quintus 1, 1 et 2
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Review for Ciceroniana On Line in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoM. Knoll, Antike griechische Philosophie
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Panel Discussion in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThe panel discussion was moderated by Prof. Jan Miernowski (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw/Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Cicero Varsoviensis, XXX annis post – Cicero in Warsaw 30 Years Later in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoCum officium meum, quo brevi fungar, in hoc constet, quid inter has commentationes et illas, quae in septimo Colloquio Tulliano abhinc triginta annos Varsoviae habitae sint, intersit exquirere, a prooemiis ipsis incipiam: etiam anno MCMLXXXIX duo viri docti praefati sunt, Latine Marianus Plezia et Italice Italus Lana; nec est quin videat quam…[Read more]
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited Reviews of B. Straumann and M.C. Alexander in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoReview of . STRAUMANN, Crisis and Constitutionalism. Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution – M.C. ALEXANDER, Roman Amoralism Reconsidered. The Political Culture of the Roman Republic and Historians in an Era of Disillusionment
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Marie Tanner deposited April 2021 Renaissance Quarterly review of “Sublime Truth and the Senses Titian’s Poesie for King Philip II of Spain” in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago“Tanner weaves a compelling scholarly narrative, spellbinding in its encyclopedic circumference….her text provides comprehensive historical and ideological context to comprehend the paintings as they would have been understood by their highly educated sixteenth-century patron and Renaissance humanist viewers.” Renaissance Quarterly, Volume…[Read more]
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