Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions...

Abstract This book explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twenti...

This chapter scrutinizes the allusive potential of ornament and the two-dimensional paradigm that dominates ornament studies. Surveying the historiography of architecture-as-orname...

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past.Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the...

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the “fit” American woman in the decades around the...

This open-access volume explores the reception of Graeco-Romano culture from Ireland’s earliest medieval scholars such as Columbanus and John Scottus Eriugena to later writers incl...

The chapter discusses the following aspects of the question of Jesus as philosopher in the Gospel of Luke: ascetic appearance, abandoning one’s family, attitude towards material po...

While there are some passages in the Gospel of Mark that seem to counter the image of the philosopher—namely, the passages that describe Jesus’ emotions—the character of Jesus is o...