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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

History of civilization --- Art --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Art, Victorian --- Art, British --- Opera --- Art, Victorian. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Konst --- Antike. --- Künste. --- Rezeption. --- Classical antiquity --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism. --- Viktoriansk --- Influence. --- Waterhouse, John William, --- 1800-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Großbritannien --- Griechenland. --- Römisches Reich. --- Intellectual life --- Culture --- Cultural history --- Großbritannien. --- Civilization, Classical --- Victorian art --- Art, Modern --- Classical influences --- History and criticism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Britain. --- Charles Kingsley. --- Charlotte Bront. --- Christianity. --- Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck. --- Classics. --- Edward Bulwer Lytton. --- France. --- Fred W. Farrar. --- Hellenism. --- Jews. --- John William Waterhouse. --- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. --- Reception Studies. --- Richard Wagner. --- Roman Empire. --- Sappho and Alcaeus. --- Sappho. --- The Last Days of Pompeii. --- The Ring. --- Victorian culture. --- Victorians. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient Rome. --- antiquity. --- art. --- barbarism. --- biography. --- chorus. --- citizenship. --- classicism. --- composition. --- culture. --- dance. --- desire. --- early Christianity. --- female desire. --- fiction. --- historical fiction. --- historicity. --- history. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nineteenth-century studies. --- novels. --- opera. --- paintings. --- performance. --- politics. --- racism. --- reception. --- religion. --- religious controversy. --- self-control. --- self-definition. --- sexual identity. --- sexuality. --- social network. --- theater.

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'The project of this book', writes the author in his Preface, 'is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece'. Dr Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, key aspects in the history of poetics are discussed: tale-telling and the representation of man as the user of language; memorial and praise; parody, comedy and carnival; irony, masks and desire; the legacy of the past and the idea of influence. Detailed readings of major works of Greek literature show how richly rewarding and revealing this approach can be. The author makes liberal use of critical writings from areas of study other than Classics and focuses on problems central to contemporary critical debate. His book is uniquely placed to bring together modern and ancient poetics in a way that is enlightening for both. The work is written as much for the serious scholar of literary criticism as for the Classicist, and all Greek is translated.

Poetry --- Classical Greek literature --- Greek literature --- -Poetics --- -Poetry --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History and criticism --- History --- -Technique --- Poetics --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- -Greek literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Poets in literature.

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'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today's world.

Dialogue. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Church history. --- Dialogue --- Religious aspects. --- Dialectic. --- Church history --- Dialectic --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Dialog --- Drama --- Polarity --- Polarity (Philosophy) --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Religious aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Dialogue - Religious aspects.

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Orestes (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Orestes (Greek mythology) in literature --- Oreste (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Aeschylus. --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος --- Oreste (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Aeschylus --- Tragedy --- Drama --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Tragédie grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Orestes, --- In literature