The Classical Tradition

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The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. * Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis * Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner * Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity * Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together * Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images

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Michael Silk

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Ancient & Classical Literature Antike u. klassische Literatur Art & Applied Arts Art History & Criticism Classical Studies Humanistische Studien Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik Reception of the Ancient World Rezeption der Antike

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"It conducts, to its great benefit and ours, a properly theoretical enquiry....The book's structure and contents are highly innovative, with short, packed chapters, in the main driven by ideas not data, jointly written throughout by the three authors with their complementary expertise (so giving an intellectual consistency that a multi-authored volume necessarily lacks)... It belongs in the library of anyone who seriously cares about Western culture." (Translation and Literature, 2015) "The authors are able to write a most readable book that has the merit to summarize the topic of the afterlife of antiquity with a variety not common in other books on the same subject. The emphasis on architecture, and not only on visual arts, and the references to political and aesthetic thought are most welcome." (Enthymema, 28 November 2014) "Reorganizes the field and challenges our preconceptions in bothfamiliar areas and in disciplines that are not usually treated instudies on the classical tradition. A must read." --Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University "An exciting read: energetic, considered, sparklinglywritten. One gets the feeling that all angles have been properlycovered. An ambitious project brilliantly realized." --Matthew Bell, King's College London "The authors have pulled off the seemingly impossible taskof fusing their three voices into a single, urgently argueddiscourse, and for that reason among many others, this will be awonderful book to read and to use, for all kinds ofreaders." --Terence Cave, St John's College, Oxford "I found the text very readable and I particularly enjoyedthe post-post-modernist take on many issues. It is hugelystimulating and intriguing throughout." --Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge "I think this is an absolutely splendid text, unique inconception, elegant and ingenious in design, and extremely'user-friendly' in styling and presentation." --David Hopkins, Bristol University
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