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Classics after Antiquity Series

This series delves into the intricate relationship between classical traditions and the ancient world that inspired them. It examines how the literary, historical, and cultural legacies of ancient Greece and Rome have been adopted and reinterpreted across centuries, from the medieval period to the present day. Each volume uncovers how subsequent ages have grappled with reinventing and understanding this inheritance, often caught between embrace and rejection. The collection also explores the enduring relevance of ancient institutions and ideas in contemporary discourse and how they are challenged in our globalized era.

Classics after Antiquity
Feeling and Classical Philology
Modernism and Homer
Classical Victorians

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  • Classical Victorians

    • 244 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    Set against the backdrop of Victorian Britain, the narrative explores the ambitious attempts to reclaim and reinterpret the ancient world. It delves into the cultural, social, and political challenges faced during this era, revealing the complexities and ultimate failures of these endeavors. Through a critical lens, the book examines the interplay between history and imperial aspirations, highlighting the tensions between nostalgia and reality in the Victorian pursuit of the past.

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  • Modernism and Homer

    • 246 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    This book explores the surprising versatility of Homer's epics of wandering and homecoming for the radical formal experiments and changing sociopolitical agendas of modernist writers responding to war, tyranny, censorship, and empire. Of interest to students and researchers interested in classical receptions, modernism, twentieth-century literature, and comparative literature.

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  • Feeling and Classical Philology

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    Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. This book shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity has lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and the self-image of scholars and teachers.

    Feeling and Classical Philology

  • Classics after Antiquity

    Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.

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