A Companion to Classical Receptions

538 Pages·2008·6.35 MB·english

by  Lorna Hardwick

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A COMPANION
TO
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS
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A COMPANION
TO
CLASSICAL
RECEPTIONS
Edited by
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
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A companion to classical receptions / edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction: Making Connections 1
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray
Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11
1 Reception and Tradition 13
Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold
2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26
Barbara Graziosi
3 Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art 38
Chris Emlyn-Jones
4 ‘Respectable in Its Ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and
Modern 50
Thomas Harrison
5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62
Ruth Webb
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vi Contents
Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73
6 ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology 75
Seth L. Schein
7 Gladstone and the Classics 86
David W. Bebbington
8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and
the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98
Emily Greenwood
9 Virgilian Contexts 113
Stephen Harrison
Part III Translation 127
10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of
Pope’s Iliad 129
David Hopkins
11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab
Reception of the Classics 141
Ahmed Etman
12 ‘Enough Give in It’: Translating the Classical Play 153
J. Michael Walton
13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168
James Robson
Part IV Theory and Practice 183
14 ‘Making It New’: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth 185
Cashman Kerr Prince
15 ‘What Difference Was Made?’: Feminist Models of Reception 195
Vanda Zajko
16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the
Historiography of the Repressed 207
Miriam Leonard
17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219
Pantelis Michelakis
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Part V Performing Arts 229
18 Iphigénie en Tauride andElektra: ‘Apolline’ and ‘Dionysiac’
Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231
Michael Ewans
19 Performance Histories 247
Fiona Macintosh
20 ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the
Modern Stage 259
Angeliki Varakis
21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case
of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274
Freddy Decreus
22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287
Nurit Yaari
Part VI Film 301
23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303
Joanna Paul
24 The Odysseyfrom Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315
Hanna M. Roisman
25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327
Marianne McDonald
Part VII Cultural Politics 343
26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins inRoma capitale 345
Catharine Edwards
27 ‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian
Production of Aeschylus’Oresteia 360
Gonda Van Steen
28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in
the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373
Betine van Zyl Smit
29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386
Edith Hall
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Part VIII Changing Contexts 399
30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odysseyin the Art of
Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401
Gregson Davis
31 ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’: SF and the Classics 415
Sarah Annes Brown
32 Aristotle’s Ethics, Old and New 428
Rosalind Hursthouse
33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440
Bryan E. Burns
34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452
Elizabeth Vandiver
Part IX Reflection and Critique 467
35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469
James I. Porter
Bibliography 482
Index 533
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Figures
0.1 (frontispiece) The Sea God. 1977: collage with mixed media on board xix
0.2 (frontispiece) Odysseus Leaves Circe. 1977: collage on masonite xx
20.1 The masked figures of Oedipus and the chorus in the production of
Oedipus Rex, directed by Tyrone Guthrie in 1955 263
20.2 Drawing inspired by Karolos Koun’s masked Oresteia in 1982 267
20.3 The masked figures of Socrates and Strepsiades in the production of
Clouds, directed by Socrates Karantinos in 1951 270
21.1 Beginning of the second act of Choephoroi. From left to right:
Pylades (wearing a steeple-crowned clown’s hat), Clytemnestra
(lying on a bed), Orestes (trying out the mechanical arm that will
help him to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus) and a resurrected
billy-goat (referring to Agamemnon) 282
21.2 Choephoroi. Second act. Pylades (standing) and Orestes (sitting),
in trying out the mechanical arm/device that will help Orestes
to perform the killing of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra 283
22.1 An outside view of the Khan Theatre, Jerusalem, before
reconstruction 292
22.2 Design of the reconstructed stage of the Khan Theatre, Jerusalem:
from the programme for the Gala Premiere 293
22.3 Ziona and Yarden in their house on the borderline (scene 1,
The War Over Home) 298
22.4 Lizy Strata and her followers demonstrating outside the Israeli
parliament in The War Over Home 299
25.1 Jaye Davidson (as Dil) and Stephen Rea (as Fergus) in The Crying
Game (1992), directed by Neil Jordan 329
25.2 Cillian Murphy (as Patrick ‘Kitten’ Brady) in Breakfast on Pluto
(2005), directed by Neil Jordan 329
26.1 Goatherd at Trajan’s Forum 349
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x List of Figures
26.2 Victor Emmanuel Monument 351
26.3 Objects found during construction, 1874 352
26.4 Aurelian walls in Viale di Campo Boario with the Pyramid of Cestius 358
33.1 Eugen Sandow, by Henry Van der Weyde, 1889 443
33.2 Untitled, by Wilhelm von Gloeden, no date 447
33.3 Caino, by Wilhelm von Gloeden, 1905 449