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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also …
Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers
Faulkner’s final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a …
Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization
This volume offers an instructive comparative perspective on the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths about the creation of humans in relation to each other, as well as a broad …
Virgil’s Map
Virgil’s Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention. Hundreds of years later, …
Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry
Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair …
Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750–1820
This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time …