Remembering Parthenope

Remembering Parthenope

The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present

Hughes, Jessica (Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University); Buongiovanni, Claudio (Researcher in Latin Language and Literature, University of Naples 'Federico II')

Oxford University Press

05/2015

400

Dura

Inglês

9780199673933

15 a 20 dias

This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation.
Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; 1. Introduction: Entering the Siren's City ; 2. Setting the Agenda: The Image of Classical Naples in Strabo's Geography and other Ancient Literary Sources ; 3. The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Mythic Origins of Neapolis ; 4. Colonizing the Past: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity in Hellenistic and Roman Naples ; 5. Greek Magistrates in Roman Naples? Law and Memory from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD ; 6. Between Classical and Modern Naples: 'Cultural Forgetting' at the Time of the Gothic War ; 7. Marmora Romana in Medieval Naples: Architectural Spolia from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries AD ; 8. Virgiliana Neapolis urbs: Receptions of Classical Naples in the Swabian and Early Angevin Ages ; 9. Naples: A Poets' City and its Attitude towards Virgil and Statius in the Fifteenth Century ; 10. Memories from the Subsoil: Discovering Antiquities in Fifteenth-Century Naples ; 11. City Branding and the Antique: Naples in Early Modern City Guides ; 12. Ex dirutis marmoribus: The Theatins and the Columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Naples ; 13. Reshaping the Past, Shaping the Present: De Jorio and Naples' Classical Heritage ; 14. 'No Retreat, Even When Broken': Classical Architecture in the Presepe Napoletano ; 15. Neapolis and the Future of Naples' Museums ; 16. Parthenope on the Metro: or, Links with the Past, on the Journey into the Future ; Bibliography ; Index