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Fifty years (and twelve) of classical scholarship : being Fifty years of classical scholarship, revised with appendices
ISBN: 0631105107 9780631105107 Year: 1968 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

Victim of the muses : poet as scapegoat, warrior, and hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European myth and history
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ISBN: 067401958X 9780674019584 Year: 2006 Volume: 11 Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard university press,

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The mask of Socrates : the image of the intellectual in antiquity
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ISBN: 0520201051 0585139938 9780520201057 Year: 1995 Volume: 59 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,

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The portraits of the great writers and thinkers from antiquity are never photographic likenesses. Many of these images were created long after the subject's death, and few tell us very much about the historical individual. Yet these visual representations can become fascinating witnesses to the role and function of the intellectual in ancient Greco-Roman society when seen in the context of the cultural aims with which they were created. In this richly illustrated work, Paul Zanker offers the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. Zanker draws on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in addition to artistic renderings; his work takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries. Through his interpretations of postures, gestures, facial expressions, and stylistic changes of particular pieces, we come to know these great poets through all of their various personas - the prophetic wise man, the virtuous democratic citizen, or the self-absorbed bon vivant. Zanker's analysis of the ways the iconography of influential thinkers and writers changed demonstrates the rise and fall of trends and the movement of schools of thought and belief, each successively embodying the most valued characteristics of the period and culture. Zanker provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth-century A.D.

Dante and the making of a modern author
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ISBN: 9780521882361 0521882362 9780511485718 9780521178440 051138730X 9780511388293 0511388292 9780511387302 9780511384448 0511384440 1281254983 9781281254986 0511485719 9780511386275 0511386273 9786611254988 6611254986 9780511382635 0511382634 1107185297 0521178444 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri - minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring experimental poet - into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure in the Western canon. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority from the early Vita Nuova through the unfinished treatises, The Banquet and On Vernacular Eloquence, to the works of his maturity, Monarchy and the Divine Comedy. Ascoli reveals how Dante anticipates modern notions of personalized, creative authorship and the phenomenon of 'Renaissance self-fashioning'. Unusually, the book examines Dante's career as a whole offering an important point of access not only to the Dantean oeuvre, but also to the history and theory of authorship in the larger Italian and European tradition.

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