A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe (HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception)

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English9;]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies ofthirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why This Volume? -- Contexts -- Challenges: Competition, Marxist Demotion, and Pragmatism -- Reinstatements: Imaginary Realms and Redefinitions of the Classics -- Trajectory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I Croatia -- Chapter 1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction -- A Civilization and a Takeover -- A Father and a Metonymy -- The Illyrians and Saint Jerome -- Aristotle, Olympiad, Sarcophagus, Pirates -- References -- Chapter 2 Pula and Split: The Early Modern Tale(s) of Two Ancient Cities -- Introduction -- Pula and Split: Antiquity in the Early Modern Urban Context -- The Renaissance Fortune of Pula Antiquities and the Three Drawings of Split -- Rediscovering Pula in the Eighteenth Century -- Split Arouses International Interest: The Diocletian Palace in the Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Croatian Neo-Latin Literature and Its Uses -- Cadmus in Dalmatia: Thomas the Archdeacon of Split (c.1200-1268)1 -- Peaches in a Letter: Ilija Crijević (1463-1520) -- From the Borderline: Nikola Mikac (1592) and Bartol Kašić (1575-1650) -- A Philological Joke: Ignjat Đurđević (1675-1737) -- Language from Another World: Ton Smerdel (1904-1970) -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics: A Manuscript Perspective -- Men of Empire and the Classics: The Diffusion of Venetian Patrician Humanism -- Provincial Elites and the Classics: The First Two Generations of Dalmatian Patrician Humanism -- The Third Generation Arises: Snippets from the Classroom (MS BAV Vat. lat. 5174) -- Ancient Past and Contemporary Politics: Ilija Banjvarić, Curtius Rufus, and the Origins of the Turks (MS BL Add. 6794) A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English ]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity