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OverviewGreek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gideon Nisbet (Reader in Classics, University of Birmingham)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.610kg ISBN: 9780199662494ISBN 10: 0199662495 Pages: 398 Publication Date: 31 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: THE DESCENT FROM OLYMPUS; PART 2: WILDE'S MELEAGER; PART 3: 'THE BOOK OF GREEK LIFE'; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: SYMONDS AND THE LANGUAGE OF GEMS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXReviewsNisbet's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the discipline of classics and its Victorian flourishing. * Simon Goldhill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Nisbet's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the discipline of classics and its Victorian flourishing. Simon Goldhill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationGideon Nisbet is a Reader in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is known for his publications in ancient epigram and the reception of classical Greece and Rome in modern culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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