Emma Bridges
Biographic Data
| ID | 5190613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Bridges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridges |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8071-9925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Military spouses and patriarchal anxiety on the ancient Athenian stage
This paper considers the representation of soldiers’ wives in ancient Athenian dramatic plays which respond to, and at times critique, the militarized socio-cultural milieu within which they were produced. It argues that these texts reflect male anxieties that incessant warmongering, as a masculine pursuit, might destabilize the institution of the family, thereby also undermining the gendered norms and social structures on which both military vio…
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
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 studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Left behind: Naomi Mitchison’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925) and the women of ancient Greece and the First World War
Classical allusions in the works of the female poets and authors writing during and immediately after the First World War are scarce. A notable exception is Naomi Mitchison’s 1925 historical novel Cloud Cuckoo Land, in which, against the backdrop of the last years of the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BCE, Mitchison tells the story of a young couple forced into exile. Written at a time when war in Europe was a recent memory, the novel exa…
Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, …
The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield’s Spartans at the Gates of Fire
One artistic genre that has received comparatively little attention in studies of the reception of ancient history is that of the historical novel. This chapter shows that literary snobbery regarding novels concerning the Persian Wars can to some extent be justified — many 20th-century novelistic depictions of the conflict with Persia read simply as exercises in reproducing the Persian Wars topoi with little imagination and few attempts to engage…
Introduction
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to throw the maximum possible fresh light on both the consistency of certain themes within the reception of the actual battles of the Persian Wars and the diversity of the ways in which they have been treated. It outlines the actual events that led to the Persian Wars. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
This book addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century bc. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaiss…
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
This book addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century bc. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaiss…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield’s Spartans at the Gates of Fire
One artistic genre that has received comparatively little attention in studies of the reception of ancient history is that of the historical novel. This chapter shows that literary snobbery regarding novels concerning the Persian Wars can to some extent be justified — many 20th-century novelistic depictions of the conflict with Persia read simply as exercises in reproducing the Persian Wars topoi with little imagination and few attempts to engage…
Introduction
This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to throw the maximum possible fresh light on both the consistency of certain themes within the reception of the actual battles of the Persian Wars and the diversity of the ways in which they have been treated. It outlines the actual events that led to the Persian Wars. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium
This book addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century bc. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaiss…
Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, …
Left behind: Naomi Mitchison’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925) and the women of ancient Greece and the First World War
Classical allusions in the works of the female poets and authors writing during and immediately after the First World War are scarce. A notable exception is Naomi Mitchison’s 1925 historical novel Cloud Cuckoo Land, in which, against the backdrop of the last years of the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BCE, Mitchison tells the story of a young couple forced into exile. Written at a time when war in Europe was a recent memory, the novel exa…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
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 studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Military spouses and patriarchal anxiety on the ancient Athenian stage
This paper considers the representation of soldiers’ wives in ancient Athenian dramatic plays which respond to, and at times critique, the militarized socio-cultural milieu within which they were produced. It argues that these texts reflect male anxieties that incessant warmongering, as a masculine pursuit, might destabilize the institution of the family, thereby also undermining the gendered norms and social structures on which both military vio…
Art (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Persian (3 works)