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Pompeii's Living Statues
An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption
Classics, Love, Revolution
Capra and Graziosi intervene in contemporary debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author, but actually written by the Neapolitan revolutionary and classical scholar Luigi Settembrini (1813-1876). Offering the first English translation of the tale—which, because of its celebration of homosexuality, long remained censored and unpublished—they read it in the context of Settembrini's life, scholarship, and revolutionary politics. Drawing strength from his legacies, Capra and Graziosi go on to tackle the no...
Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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Naples
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The Literary World
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The Edinburgh Review
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Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790 - 1870
Established as a standard work - covers the whole of Italy not just the Risorgimento itself.
