Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period

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Karl A. E. Enenkel, Jan L. De Jong, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Alicia Montoya
BRILL, 2002 - 375 pages
The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

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Universals and Particulars History Painting
25
the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican Palace
27
Lipsius Vaenius and the Rebellion
57
Lipsiuss Dialogue
74
Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games 1582
75
Polybius Revived
101
Scholarly Analysis
123
Some Renaissance Representations
147
The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schillers Lectures
235
Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede
253
The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems
269
The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel
287
Tyrant or Stoic Hero? MarcAntoine Murets Julius Caesar
303
Caesar the Father in MarieAnne Barbiers La mort
319
The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed
339
List of Illustrations
357

Montaigne Plutarch and Historiography
167
Shakespeares View
187
Octavia
213
List of Contributors
373
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