Author: Kaldellis Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: byzantine, athens, pilgrimage, classicism, parthenon, christian
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521882281
ISBN-13: 9780521882286

Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important as a church than it had been as a temple: the Byzantine period was its true age of glory. He examines the idiosyncratic fusion of pagan and Christian culture that took place in Athens, where an attempt was made to replicate the classical past in Christian terms, affe

Author: Elizabeth Lillehoj
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: painting, japanese, classicism, perspectives, critical
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2004-01
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 082482699X
ISBN-13: 9780824826994

In the West, classical art--inextricably linked to concerns of a ruling or dominant class--commonly refers to art with traditional themes and styles that resurrect a past golden era. Although art of the early Edo period (1600-1868) encompasses a spectrum of themes and styles, references to the past are so common that many Japanese art historians have variously described this period as a "classical revival," "era of classicism," or a "renaissance." How did seventeenth-century artists and patrons imagine the past? Why did they so often select styles and themes from the court culture of the

Author: Buford Norman
Publisher: Summa Pubns
Keywords: context, french, classicism, quinault, philippe, graces, libretti, touched
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2001-12
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1883479355
ISBN-13: 9781883479350

Author: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: didacticism, classicism, dynamism, antiquity, literature, greek
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754656837
ISBN-13: 9780754656838

Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other eastern texts examined in this volume. The contributions here presented make new inroads into a rich literature notable above all for its flexibilit

Authors:Arthur Marwick, Derek Matravers, L. Walsh,
Publisher: Open University Worldwide
Keywords: revolution, block, classicism, history, humanities, introduction
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0749296658
ISBN-13: 9780749296650

Author: Ruth Hoberman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: women, historical, fiction, century, twentieth, classicism, ancient, world, gendering
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1997-05
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 0791433358
ISBN-13: 9780791433355

Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault. As women gained access to higher education in the late nineteenth century, they gained access also to the classical learning that had for so long demarcated and legitimated the British ruling classes. Steeped in misogyny, the classical tradition presented educated women with a massive project: the recasting of that

Author: Caroline Winterer
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: american, intellectual, life, rome, greece, classicism, ancient, culture
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0801878896
ISBN-13: 9780801878893

Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broa