Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and CultureUniversity of California Press, 1998年6月25日 - 328 頁 In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism. |
內容
Preface and Acknowledgments | 7 |
Classical Influences in the Modern World | 15 |
Victorian Hellas | 31 |
Lesbos and the Genius Loci | 45 |
On the Thanatos Trail | 63 |
The Treasures of Egypt | 77 |
Delphic Responses | 91 |
Strepsiades Socrates and the Abuses of Intellectualism | 112 |
The Macedonian Connection | 151 |
Some Historiographical Approaches to the Hellenistic Age | 165 |
aemulatio imitatio comparatio | 193 |
The Enigma of Ovids Exile | 210 |
The Problems Confronting a Translator of Ovids Love Poetry | 223 |
Juvenal Revisited | 240 |
The Changing Functions of Classical Translation | 256 |
Notes and References | 271 |
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