Sarah Brown Ferrario
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Brown Ferrario |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Brown |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrario |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARIO S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
Teaching Classical Reception and Music
Two courses recently offered at The Catholic University of America employed classical reception as a pedagogical tool in different academic contexts. The first course, Roman History and Opera , was team-taught by the authors as a liberal-arts offering for undergraduate students across all disciplines. The other, Stage Music Practicum , used ancient drama to teach graduate-student composers about the relationship between music and onstage action. …
Aeschylus and Western Opera
Xenophon and Greek Political Thought
Historical Agency and the ‘Great Man' in Classical Greece
The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life. At least as early as the birth of the Athenian democracy, questions about the ownership of the motion of history were being publicly posed and publicly challenged. The responses to these questions, however, gradually shifted over time, in reaction to historical and political developments d…
“Reading” Athens
Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis
Xenophon?s two major historiographic predecessors address the problem of historical agency both directly and indirectly, and this chapter suggests that Xenophon too, particularly in the Hellenica and the Anabasis , engages with this issue in complex ways. The first section of the chapter treats Agesilaus in the Hellenica . The second section examines Alcibiades and Lysander. These two sections explore Xenophon?s understanding of historical agency…
Political Tragedy
Greek Tragedy and Opera
Greek Tragedy and Opera":An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Seminar Sarah Brown Ferrario There are few art forms whose birth is so well informed—and so well documented—as that of opera. In the later decades of the sixteenth century, a group of humanists who called themselves La Camerata weregathering regularly in Florence, as were so many other intellectual salons at that time, to discuss literature, art, and music. Among this particular assembly…
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Greek Tragedy and Opera
Greek Tragedy and Opera":An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Seminar Sarah Brown Ferrario There are few art forms whose birth is so well informed—and so well documented—as that of opera. In the later decades of the sixteenth century, a group of humanists who called themselves La Camerata weregathering regularly in Florence, as were so many other intellectual salons at that time, to discuss literature, art, and music. Among this particular assembly…
Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis
Xenophon?s two major historiographic predecessors address the problem of historical agency both directly and indirectly, and this chapter suggests that Xenophon too, particularly in the Hellenica and the Anabasis , engages with this issue in complex ways. The first section of the chapter treats Agesilaus in the Hellenica . The second section examines Alcibiades and Lysander. These two sections explore Xenophon?s understanding of historical agency…
Political Tragedy
“Reading” Athens
Historical Agency and the ‘Great Man' in Classical Greece
The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life. At least as early as the birth of the Athenian democracy, questions about the ownership of the motion of history were being publicly posed and publicly challenged. The responses to these questions, however, gradually shifted over time, in reaction to historical and political developments d…
Xenophon and Greek Political Thought
Aeschylus and Western Opera
Teaching Classical Reception and Music
Two courses recently offered at The Catholic University of America employed classical reception as a pedagogical tool in different academic contexts. The first course, Roman History and Opera , was team-taught by the authors as a liberal-arts offering for undergraduate students across all disciplines. The other, Stage Music Practicum , used ancient drama to teach graduate-student composers about the relationship between music and onstage action. …
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
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