Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World

Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII

Bibliographic Data

ID19934329
EditorsChristoph Pieper, James Ker
Year2014
Pages557
Publication date2014-05-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueValuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004274952
OpenAlexW2663125702
ISBN9789004274952
Open LibraryOL29701015M
LanguageEN
Citations received33

The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past from approximately the fifth century BCE until the second century CE. It examines how specific communities used notions of antiquity to define themselves or others, which models from the past proved most desirable, what literary or exegetic modes they employed, and how temporal systems for ascribing value intersected with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the application of aesthetic criteria

Aesthetics · Art · Classical antiquity · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Period (music) · Space (punctuation) · Value (mathematics) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy · civilization · Congresses · Time perception · Values

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