CSTS/COML 212: Refashioning the Classics: Dramatization and Illustration (HC)

Updated and translated version of the standard encyclopedia for Antiquity, Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Articles tend to be detailed and often address artistic and literary representations in Antiquity. Bibliographies list books, essays, and journal articles for further reading. Volumes 1 to 15 (Antiquity) are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity. Volumes I to V of the Classical Tradition are uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of the classical heritage. Supplements take up specific themes. Note in particular:
Vol. 5) Reception of Classical Literature
Vol. 7) Figures of Antiquity and Their Reception in Art, Literature and Music
All Pauly volumes are available in print at Haverford. Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore have all the volumes online.

Important reference source in the field of Classics. In its digital form, the new OCD is a continuously updated and expanding resource that keeps scholarship current and reflective of emerging subfields and perspectives. The OCD also incorporates multimedia, including images, links, and audiovisual clips that complement textual content and connect readers to innovative digital materials that have become integral to the field.

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus sirens to an ambulance? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics.

Provides an introduction to the growing field of reception studies along with coverage of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from scholars . Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section connecting the classical tradition to contemporary theory.

This 5th supplement to Brill’s New Pauly gives an overview of the reception and influence of ancient literary works on the literature, art and music created from Antiquity to the present.

This 4th supplement to the New Pauly series surveys the representation of mythological figures across time periods (antiquity, the Middle Ages, Early Modern period and the modern age) and across genres and media (literature and philosophy, fine arts, film, music and dance).

An important reference for the continuing afterlife of classical Greek and Roman myth in Western arts (chiefly painting, sculpture, music, dance, and literature), Organizes entries by name (e.g., Herakles) or theme with notes and subcategories for major or complex entries. Each entry presents chronological listings of creative works dealing with the topic.