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In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature - (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world.
- About the Author: Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy; Theodore D. Papanghelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Bernhard Zimmermann, University of Freiburg, Germany; Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 290 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Ancient & Classical
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The volume explores the wide-ranging concept of the past as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The eighteen contributions illustratBook Synopsis
The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The eighteen contributions illustrate how the ancients addressed the past through poetry, history and philosophy and lend insight into the metaliterary, self-reflexive way of dealing with past texts through scholarship.
About the Author
Franco Montanari, University of Genova, Italy; Theodore D. Papanghelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Bernhard Zimmermann, University of Freiburg, Germany; Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.