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Troy, Carthage and the Victorians - The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,971
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Troy, Carthage and the Victorians - The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Hardcover): Rachel...

Troy, Carthage and the Victorians - The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Hardcover)

Rachel Bryant Davies

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2018
Authors: Rachel Bryant Davies
Dimensions: 253 x 180 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-19266-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 1-107-19266-8
Barcode: 9781107192669

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