CSTS 209: Classical Mythology (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 a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture. Accompanied by an extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the Classical tradition that surrounds us today.

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.

A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL), offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which literary texts of the classical world have been interpreted and refashioned by English writers. It conceives of "reception" as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. 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. The five-volume set covers English literature from 800 CE to the present.