Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; Barbara Zipser (Editors). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen. (Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, 17.) xxvi + 684 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €180 (cloth); ISBN 9789004302211. E-book available.

Isis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-852
Author(s):  
Alessia Guardasole
Keyword(s):  
Classical Reception

Cosmopolitan Classicism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
French Language ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Classical Reception ◽  
Modern France ◽  
Pierre Louys ◽  
Hellenistic Greece

Oscar Wilde associated ancient Greece and modern France as the homelands of artistic autonomy and personal freedom. France and the French language were crucial in his adoption of a cosmopolitan identity in which his close emotional and intellectual engagement with the ancient world also played a key role. His practices of classical reception therefore have roots in the French as well as English traditions. Wilde’s attitude towards ancient Greece initially shows the influence of French Parnassian poetry. As time goes on, however, he starts to engage with the new images of the ancient world promoted by Decadence and Symbolism, which sidelined the Greek classicism idealized by the Parnassians in favour of Hellenistic and Latin antiquity. Particularly important to Wilde were his exchanges with French Symbolist authors Marcel Schwob and Pierre Louÿs, whose writings on Hellenistic Greece are in dialogue with Wilde’s works, notably ‘The Critic as Artist’ and Salomé.

scholarly journals Latin Education and Classical Reception: the Minor Genres

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Current Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Classical Reception

This contribution is the response piece to a larger dialogue of three articles that form the current issue of JOLCEL. The other contributions are “Controversial Topics in Literature and Education: Hrotswitha and Donatus on Terence’s Rapes” by Chrysanthi Demetriou (pp. 2–22), “The Meaning and Use of fabula in the Dialogus creaturarummoralizatus” by Brian Møller Jensen (pp. 24–41) and “Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan’s Latin Medea in Bordeaux” by Lucy C.M.M. Jackson (pp. 43–61).

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