Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world: proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII

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Corporate Author: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values (Other)
Other Authors: Ker, James (Other)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2014
Series:Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum 369 : Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature
In: Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum (369 : Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature)

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Author Notes:ed. by James Ker; Christoph Pieper
Table of Contents:
  • General introduction : valuing antiquity in antiquity James Ker and Christoph PieperPART 1. LOCATING THE PAST IN PEOPLES OR PLACES
  • Pelasgians and Leleges : using the past to understand the present Jeremy McInerney
  • The Egyptian past in the Roman present Maaike Leemreize
  • The Roman suburbium and the Roman past Joseph Farrell
  • PART 2. ENCOUNTERING THE PAST THROUGH MATERIAL OBJECTS ; Burnt temples in the landscape of the past Margaret M. Miles
  • Keimelia in context : toward an understanding of the value of antiquities in the past Amanda S. Reiterman
  • Croesus' offerings and the value of the past in Herodotus' histories Karen Bassi
  • PART 3. PERSONS SEEMING TO EMBODY AN ANCIENT ETHOS ; The creation of anachronism : assessing ancient valor in Sophocles' Ajax Sheila Murnaghan
  • Long ago and far away ... the uses of the past in Tacitus' Minora Christina S. Kraus
  • M. Atilius Regulus-making defeat into victory : diverse values in an ambivalent story Eleanor Winsor Leach
  • PART 4. THE PRESENT DISTANCED FROM PAST EXAMPLES ; Agrippina the Younger : Tacitus' Unicum Exemplum Caitlin C. Gillespie
  • Si te nostra tulissent saecula : comparison with the past as a means of glorifying the present in Domitianic Panegyric Lisa Cordes
  • The value of the past challenged : myth and ancient history in the Attic orators Jonas Grethlein
  • PART 5. THE ARCHAIC PAST IN LITERARY HISTORY ; Archaizing and classicism in the literary historical thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Lawrence Kim
  • The Attic muse and the Asian harlot : classicizing allegories in Dionysius and Longinus Casper C. de Jonge
  • From Lesbos she took her honeycomb : Sappho and the "female tradition" in Hellenistic poetry Mieke de Vos
  • Ennius and the revaluation of traditional historiography in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Jason S. Nethercut
  • PART 6. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOURSES ; Valuing the mediators of antiquity in the Noctes Atticae Joseph A. Howley
  • Valuing antiquity in antiquity by means of allegoresis Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.