Remembering Parthenope by Jessica Hughes
This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Adopting a chronological approach, chapters examine important moments in Naples' reception history from the Roman period (when the city was already several centuries old) to the present day. Among the topics covered are representations of the city's early history and mythology in texts and temples of the Roman period; later uses of Roman spolia (marble sculptures and architectural elements) in Christian churches; the importance of antiquity to the rulers of the Angevin and Swabian periods; the appropriation of the city's classical heritage by Renaissance humanists; the image of the 'local' poets Virgil and Statius in later eras; humanist images of the ancient aqueducts and catacombs that ran beneath the city; representations of classical monuments in early modern city guides; images of ancient ruins in contemporary Catholic nativity scenes; and the archaeology and philosophy of the city's Metro system. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary range of scholars, this comprehensive volume provides a highly accessible point of entry into the vast bibliography on ancient Naples.-
Laughing with Medusa
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
- Sophocles' Antigone in Early Modern English Drama
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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics
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Greek Tragedy on Screen
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Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
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The Living Death of Antiquity
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Latin Américan Antígonas: An Anthology of Seven Translated Plays
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Classics and Media Theory
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Fragmentary Modernism
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
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Childhood and the Classics
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David Jones and Rome
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Roman Receptions of Sappho
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The Irish Classical Self
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Madly after the Muses
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Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity
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Beyond Greece and Rome
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Between Jerusalem and Athens
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The Other Virgil
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Hegel's Antiquity
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Women Classical Scholars
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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
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Postdramatic Tragedies
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Virgil and his Translators
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Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
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Homer's Daughters
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Son of Classics and Comics
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Film and the Classical Epic Tradition
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Athens in Paris
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Romans and Romantics
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Classics and Comics
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The Senecan Aesthetic
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Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
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Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
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Lucretius and the Early Modern
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The Nation and its Ruins
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics
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The Classics and Colonial India
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Sciences of Antiquity
This stimulating story of Parthenope's city is taken on the present day in three parts and sixteen chaptersThese range through the study of the Temple of the Dioscuri, now part of a church, to early city guidebooks, from the construction of the Metro to the Camorra-controlled rubbish collectors' strike in 2009. * Peter Stothard,The Times Literary Supplement *
Jessica Hughes is a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University.
Claudio Buongiovanni is a Research Fellow in Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199673933 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199673934 |
| Title | Remembering Parthenope |
| Author | Jessica Hughes |
| Series | Classical Presences |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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