A Companion to Classical ReceptionsLorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.
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... opera to the purity , eco- nomy and dramatic power imagined in the Camerata's original vision of opera as a modern revival of the spirit of Greek tragedy ( for which cf. Strunk 1998 : 363-415 ) . He sought to abandon spectacle and ...
... opera to the purity , eco- nomy and dramatic power imagined in the Camerata's original vision of opera as a modern revival of the spirit of Greek tragedy ( for which cf. Strunk 1998 : 363-415 ) . He sought to abandon spectacle and ...
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... opera seem , at first sight , to inhabit a quite different world from Sophokles ' original drama . However , these are all due to its Wagnerian / Nietzschean emphasis on the Dionysiac forces , which make men and women act beyond the ...
... opera seem , at first sight , to inhabit a quite different world from Sophokles ' original drama . However , these are all due to its Wagnerian / Nietzschean emphasis on the Dionysiac forces , which make men and women act beyond the ...
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... opera re - creates , in a distinctive modernist style , the tension between ' Dionysiac ' destructive passion and ' Apolline ' formal structure , which lay at the heart of ancient Greek tragedy . FURTHER READING The best CD recordings ...
... opera re - creates , in a distinctive modernist style , the tension between ' Dionysiac ' destructive passion and ' Apolline ' formal structure , which lay at the heart of ancient Greek tragedy . FURTHER READING The best CD recordings ...
Contents
Reception and Tradition | 13 |
The Ancient Reception of Homer | 26 |
Achaemenid Persia Ancient | 50 |
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