Antiquity Now
Cambridge University Press, 5/14/2015
EAN 9780521196260, ISBN10: 0521196264
Hardcover, 262 pages, 25.4 x 18.1 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity explains itself to itself through ever-expanding technologies and media. Antiquity Now thus examines the often-surprising redeployment of the art and literature of the ancient world, a geography charged with especial value in the contemporary imagination.
1. Introduction
2. It's Greek to them
gay and lesbian receptions of the ancient world
3. Classics and ideology
4. September 11th on the Western stage
5. From the borders
contemporary identity, community, and the ancient world
6. Power, the canon, and the unexpected voice
Conclusion
on fractures and fracturing.