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Troy, Carthage and the Victorians - The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Hardcover)
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Troy, Carthage and the Victorians - The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Hardcover)
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Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the
Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on
antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is
the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions
of the Trojan War and its aftermath, how archaeological discoveries
in the Troad and North Africa sparked dramatic debates, and how
their ruins were exploited to conceptualise problematic
relationships between past, present and future. Rachel Bryant
Davies breaks new ground in the afterlife of classical antiquity by
revealing more complex and less constrained interaction with
classical knowledge across a broader social spectrum than yet
understood, drawing upon methodological developments from
disciplines such as history of science and theatre history in order
to do so. She also develops a thorough critical framework for
understanding classical burlesque and engages in in-depth analysis
of a toy-theatre production.
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