Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192524225, 9780198767091, 0192524224

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze (Classical Presences) 9780198767091, 0198767099

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first centu

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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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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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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198777359, 0198777353

In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to

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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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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191083143, 9780198777359, 0191083143

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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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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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The Protean Virgil: Material Form and the Reception of the Classics (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198727804, 0198727801

The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand how and why different readers have responded differently to the

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

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