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Despite the many studies on the author and the wealth of data on his academic education, relatively little was known of the high school years of Giorgio Bassani and the decisive encounters during those years. This book, rich in data and discoveries, traces precisely that dark area, identifies in Francesco Viviani the first of the Masters who, well beyond the period spent in the classrooms, would have exerted a profound influence on the future writer. The Greek and Latin texts read in those distant times are among those indicated by Professor Guzzo in Dietro la porta (Behind the Door), confirming the profoundly educational role that classical culture had had for the genesis of the ethical commitment and the search for truth which is the basis of all the Bassanian writing. Catullo, Alceo and especially Orazio will become for Bassani, according to Claudio Cazzola's analysis, examples to be emulated with refined allusive art, suggesting a compositional method that sees in a tireless limae labor the secret and authentic justification for the existence not only of Ferrara novel but also of its author.

Classical literature.

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"This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight 'translation,' a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception - from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studies would term 'adaptation', 'refiguration' and 'intervention.' As the volume's essays reveal, modernist 'translations' of Classical texts crucially informed the innovations of many modernists and often themselves constituted modernist literary projects. Thus the volume responds to gaps in both Classical reception and Modernist studies: essays treat a comparatively understudied area in Classical reception by reviving work in a subfield of Modernist studies relatively inactive in recent decades but enjoying renewed attention through the recent work of contributors to this volume. The volume's essays address work significantly informed by Classical materials, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, Ovid, and Propertius, and approach a range of modernist writers: Pound and H.D., among the modernists best known for work engaging the Classics, as well as Cummings, Eliot, Joyce, Laura Riding, and Yeats."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Classical literature --- Appreciation. --- Translating.

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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices invest

Classical literature --- History and criticism.

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"Die bisherige altertumswissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung zu Euripides konzentrierte sich zumeist auf die Euripides-Rezeption in der griechischen Komödie oder in der römischen Tragödie. Eine eigene Beschäftigung mit der Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike stellt bislang ein Desiderat dar. Euripides galt in dieser Zeit als Tragiker schlechthin und war der nach Homer am häufigsten zitierte Dichter. Zumeist rezipiert über die Buchlektüre, war er Schulautor geworden und hatte insbonesondere im Rhetorikunterricht der "Zweiten Sophistik" eine herausragende Stellung. In dieser Epoche konstituierte sich auch die uns bekannte Auswahl an Stücken des Euripides. Der Band arbeitet in 20 Beiträgen die griechischsprachige Rezeption der vollständig wie auch der fragmentarisch erhaltenen Tragödien des Euripides in zentralen Autoren und literarischen Gattungen der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike heraus und diskutiert sie im kultur- und literaturhistorischen Kontext der Zeit. So leistet der Band nicht nur einen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Wirkungsgeschichte des Euripides, sondern auch zu einem allgemeinen Verständnis der literarischen Kultur der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike."-- Back cover.

Classical literature --- History and criticism.

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Many threads contribute to form the complex pattern of a culture-geographical, racial, economic, political, scientific, artistic, religious, and philosophical, and, certainly, temporal circumstances. Some acquaintance with this total Greek pattern is essential if we are to understand the values expressed in Greek literature.

English literature --- Greek literature --- Classical literature