Vienna: Peter Lang 2003. ISBN 3-631-36837-2; US ISBN 0-8204-4806-0. Pp. xi + 355. (original) (raw)

This volume explores selected topics on classical antiquity and tradition in the areas of Latin literature (classical, postclassical and medieval), Greek literature (classical and Hellenistic), art and history. The essays treat key texts and cultural phenomena from Homer to the fifth century AD. A wide variety of critical approaches are employed to challenge orthodoxies and to present fresh perspectives on the literature, art and history of classical antiquity. Newly emerging areas of inquiry are treated in addition to canonical texts and the views of both established international scholars and young voices in the discipline are represented. A recurrent motif of the volume emerges in the interpretive benefits of combining philological acumen with theoretical and intertextual considerations. Chapters are by G. Arnott (Leeds), B. Baldwin (Calgary), A. Basson (Buffalo, New York), L. Cilliers (Orange Free State), K. Coleman (Harvard), P. Conradie (Stellenbosch), W. Dominik (Otago), R. Evans (South Africa), E. Fantham (Princeton), S. Farron (Witwatersrand), K. Galinsky (Texas), B. Gentili and Liana Lomiento (Urbino), D. Gerber (Western Ontario), A. Gosling (Natal), J. Hale (Kentucky), S. Harrison (Oxford), J. Hilton (Natal), D. Konstan (Brown), M. Lambert (Natal), B. Levick (Oxford), A. Mackay (Auckland), B. Martin (Pretoria), G. Maurach (Braunschweig), P. Murgatroyd (McMaster), I. Ronca (Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis), D. Saddington (Witwatersrand), H. Sivan (Kansas), P. Tennant (Natal), B. van Zyl Smit (Western Cape), R. Whitaker (Cape Town).