GREK 101: Introduction to Greek Literature: Worlds of Wonder (HC)

This five-volume series, The Classical Tradition, accompanies the New Pauly Encyclopedia. It addresses the reinterpretation and revaluation of the Greek and Roman heritage, including an historiography of classical scholarship itself.

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.

Designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have been responded to and refashioned by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day in 5 volumes, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context.