The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory

Lisa Maurice (Editor), Eran Almagor (Editor)

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Abstract

In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.
Original languageAmerican English
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Number of pages424
ISBN (Electronic)9789004347724
ISBN (Print)9789004347717
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameMetaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity
Volume11

Bibliographical note

XIV, 424 pages

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