Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191093142, 9780198746676, 0191093149

Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198746676, 0198746679

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in

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Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) 9780198738053, 0198738056

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, wit

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Lucretius and the Early Modern (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198713845, 0198713843

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem

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Postdramatic Tragedies (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198817680, 0198817681

Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition t

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Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192524195, 9780198803034, 0192524194

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Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199689484, 0199689482

The Russian reception of the greatest Roman poet, Vergil, provided Russian thinkers with a way in which to define Russia

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Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198814122, 0198814127

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has lon

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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199596461, 0199596468

The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth cen

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Postdramatic Tragedies (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192549853, 9780198817680, 0192549855

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Roman Receptions of Sappho (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198829430, 0198829434

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are thr

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