Torlone Zara Martirosova - A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

1. Chapter 02
2. Chapter 07
3. Chapter 09
4. Chapter 12
5. Chapter 22
6. Chapter 26
7. Chapter 33
8. Chapter 41
9. Chapter 42
10. Chapter 44

This series offers comprehensive, thoughtprovoking surveys of the reception of major classical authors and themes. These Handbooks will consist of approximately 30 newly written essays by leading scholars in the field, and will map the ways in which the ancient world has been viewed and adapted up to the present day. Essays are meant to be engaging, accessible, and scholarly pieces of writing, and are designed for an audience of advanced undergraduates, graduates, and scholars.

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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch

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Names: Torlone, Zara Martirosova, editor. | Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972 editor. | Dutsch, Dorota, editor.
Title: A handbook to classical reception in eastern and central Europe / edited by Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana Lacourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016036904| ISBN 9781118832714 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118832684 (epub) | ISBN 9781118832721 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Classical literatureAppreciationEurope, Eastern. | Classical literatureAppreciationEurope, Central. | Classical literatureAppreciationRussia (Federation) | Classical literatureAppreciationGeorgia (Republic) | Classical literatureAppreciationArmenia (Republic)
Classification: LCC PA3013 .H27 2017 | DDC 880.09dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036904

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Radu Ardevan is Professor of Ancient History at BabeBolyai University of ClujNapoca. A specialist in ancient history, epigraphy, and numismatics, he was awarded the Vasile Prvan prize by the Romanian Academy (2000). He has been an active researcher at the National History Museum of Transylvania and the Institute for Archaeology and Art History in ClujNapoca. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, he has published several books: Viaa municipal n Dacia roman (1998); with Viorica Suciu and Daniela Ciugudean, Tezaurul monetar roman Apulum VII (2003), and, with Livio Zerbini, La Dacia romana (2007).

Jerzy Axer is a Professor at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw Theatre Academy. His main fields of research are Ciceronian studies and the reception of classical tradition in European culture. He is the author of hundreds of articles and book chapters and 12 books in several languages, including The Style and the Composition of Ciceros Speech Pro Roscio Comoedo (1980);with Antonio Fontana, Espaoles y polacos en la Corte de Carlos V (1994); acina jako jzyk elit (2004), and The Classical Tradition in CentralEastern Europe in Companion to the Classical Tradition, edited by Craig Kallendorf (2007). Professor Axer is the founder and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw.

Jan Baant is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Charles University, Prague, teaches also Classics at the Trnava University in Slovak Republic, and works in the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His scholarly interests range from issues of classical studies to art history, semiotics of art to iconology. He has lectured at various scholarly institutions throughout Europe and participated in major international classical studies publishing and research projects. Recently he published the following books, for which his wife, Nina Baantov, provided illustrations: Vrtba Garden in Prague (2011), Waldstein Palace in Prague (2011), St Nicholas in Lesser Town (2011), Vila Hvzda v Praze (2013), Prask Belvedr (2014); and, with Frances Starn, edited The Czech Reader (2010).

Florin Berindeanu received a BA and MA from the University of Bucharest in Comparative Literature and Italian, a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia, Athens, and he was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Irvine. He teaches comparative literature/world literature courses from antiquity to the twentieth century, and Italian and semiotics. As a generalist in the field of literature and literary theory, his specialty is medieval studies and mysticism.