Series: Classical Continuum

Classical reception has always implied a parenthetical relationship insofar as Antiquity appears to be inserted into (en) while remaining alongside (para) Modernity. As in any parenthetical statement, the ancient source can be said to be a part of and apart from modern revisions and reworkings, recontextualisations and reorientations, belonging to a present discourse by maintaining its status beyond it. Through...

In Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry, Gregory Nagy continues where The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours left off. This book is also centred on some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, including the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey as well as seven tragedies stemming from the grand masters of the Classical Age of Athens. It returns to the...

Anarkali, an Orientalised persona assigned to the harem of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, is also the lover of Akbar's son, Salim, the future Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Her body and narrative occupy the liminal and contentious space between Akbar and Salim, especially as construed under the male gaze of seventeenth-century European travellers. But while both Akbar and Salim are historically attested...

Beginning Again with the Classical Orders reconsiders well-established understandings of the Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders that emerged during the Archaic and Classical periods in ancient Greece. The orders were significant not only in architecture, but also in myth and ritual, cosmology, and philosophical thought, informed by the ancient Greeks’ relation to nature as kosmos, “orderly, harmonious arrangement.” Antonios...

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek literature in the Hellenistic world in various ways. Focusing on the group of grammatika vases that feature citations, By Heart or From the Scroll offers new insights into the archaeological material within its...