Ancient (Anti)Heroes on Screen and Ancient Greece Post-9/11

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Vincent Tomasso
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Time Period

This chapter looks at how 9/11 has altered our engagement with classical antiquity. The author examines how the heroes of ancient Greece became antiheroes on screen in a post 9/11 world and how at this time period engagement with figures such as Alexander, Leonidas, and Perseus moved away from the behaviors seen in their earlier onscreen counterparts, and how films such as 300, Clash of the Titans, and Alexander, while set in antiquity, provide the distance for audiences to explore issues raised by 9/11. At the same time, the depiction of these new antiheroes reflect a revised approach on screen to the representation of mythical thinking (elements of magic, religion, myth-aspects of ancient Greece that were central to pop culture depictions) that came into question along with the destabilization of American identity.

Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floris Verhaart
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
General Point ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
The Enlightenment

The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was a moment when scholars and thinkers across Europe reflected on how they saw their relationship with the past, especially classical antiquity. Many readers in the Renaissance had appreciated the writings of ancient Latin and Greek authors not just for their literary value, but also as important sources of information that could be usefully applied in their own age. By the late seventeenth century, however, it was felt that the authority of the ancients was no longer needed and that their knowledge had become outdated thanks to scientific discoveries as well as the new paradigms of rationalism and empiricism. Those working on the ancient past and its literature debated new ways of defending their relevance for society. The different approaches to classical literature defended in these debates explain how the writings of ancient Greece and Rome could become a vital part of eighteenth-century culture and political thinking. Through its analysis of the debates on the value of the classics for the eighteenth century, this book also makes a more general point on the Enlightenment. Although often seen as an age of reason and modernity, the Enlightenment in Europe continuously looked back for inspiration from preceding traditions and ages such as Renaissance humanism and classical antiquity. Finally, the pressure on scholars in the eighteenth century to popularize their work and be seen as contributing to society is a parallel for our own time in which the value of the humanities is a continuous topic of debate.

Hate and the State in Ancient Greece

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Konstan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Moral Emotion ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Civil Strife ◽  
City States

In classical antiquity, thinkers like Aristotle regarded hatred, unlike envy, as a moral emotion, elicited by the perception of vice. Nevertheless, hatred might be taken to irrational extremes (there are occasional expressions of hatred of all women, for example), and antagonisms between ethnic groups (as in Sparta or Alexandria) or social classes (in many Greek city states) could lead to open conflict or civil war. Classical states had few resources to inhibit or control such hatreds. One significant development in this direction, however, was the amnesty decreed in Athens to heal the wounds of the civil strife that broke out after Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War.

Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy: Planning in Classical Antiquity

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
William R. Biers ◽  
J. B. Ward-Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity

scholarly journals Classical Antiquity in the Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breiner Andresen

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Varvara Makhortova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
The Universe

The article analyses the influence of Ancient Greek philosophy and mythology, noticeable in the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. The results of the analysis show that Sophia de Mello’s poetry, seemingly non-philosophic, is based on the ideas close to the theories proposed by ancient philosophers from Pre-Socratics philosophers to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The ideas of the unity between the human being and the Universe, as well as Plato’s theory of the Truth, the Good and the Beauty gain the special importance for the Portuguese writer. The ancient myths are reinterpreted by Sophia de Mello. The Ancient Greece is represented as the symbol of harmony between the human being and the Nature.

scholarly journals First Schools of Philosophy in the World of Classical Antiquity (IVth Century BC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-165
Author(s):  
M.A. Solopova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exegetical Tradition ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Nature Of Teaching

the article is devoted to the history of the formation of the first schools of philosophy in Ancient Greece in the 4th century BC. The author examines the meaning of the word “school”, analyzes the main features of the first philosophical school of antiquity – the Academy of Plato in comparison with the earlier schools of the pre-Socratics and Aristotelian Lyceum. The article argues that, in addition to the systematic nature of teaching philosophical sciences, a feature of the activities of philosophical schools was that in each of them a canonical corpus of texts was created and thereby provided conditions for the further development of philosophy as a predominantly exegetical tradition.

scholarly journals Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome in didactics

2016 ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Głogowska
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Classical Myths ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Real Challenge

In text below the author would like to take this opportunity to raise the issue of the possibility of presenting during Latin lessons wide range of information relating to the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. A lesson dedicated to the Olympian gods will serve as an example of such practice. This lesson will provide a starting point for students and it will enable them to meet the fascinating world of history and culture of the classical antiquity. This article will start with presentation of the most important information about the polish school ‘gimnazjum’ and the curriculum of the Latin language in this school. Then some formal issues connected with conducting the discussed lesson will be highlighted. Afterwards the original lesson plan will be discussed. During the lesson the selected canon of Greek and Roman myths will be presented and then enriched by multimedia presentation and additional exercises. In addition to this both the lesson objectives and teaching methods and forms of work will be shown. Nowadays, very important matter is that all of this should be achieved in a friendly manner and at the same time it should be clear and understandable for pupils, who take Latin classes. This is a real challenge, it is a really difficult task to gain interest of those young people, who are accustomed or even addicted to the use of the Internet, in the language such as Latin. In addition, the author would like to show the pupils the timeless value of myths and legends of the classical antiquity and draw their attention to rediscover the power of classical myths, symbols and concepts in the 21st century.

Reconstruction Synthesis of the Calendrical Subsystem of Antikythera Mechanism

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Sen Yan ◽  
Jian-Liang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Analog Computer ◽  
Gear Train ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Design Constraints ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Mediterranean Archaeology

The damaged excavation of the Antikythera mechanism presents the oldest astronomical analog computer in ancient Greece. Its interior mechanism is a complicated gear train with many subsystems in which some are unclear, such as the calendrical subsystem. This work focuses on the reconstruction synthesis of the calendrical subsystem and provides a systematic approach to generate all feasible designs. Based on the studies of historical literatures and existing designs, the required design constraints are concluded. Then, according to the concepts of generalization and specialization of mechanisms, two feasible designs and 14 results of teeth counting, including the existing one by Freeth et al. (2002, “The Antikythera Mechanism: 1. Challenging the Classic Research,” Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, 2, pp. 21–35; 2002, “The Antikythera Mechanism: 2. Is It Posidonius Orrery?,” Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, 2, pp. 45–58; 2006, “Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator Known as the Antikythera Mechanism,” Nature (London), 444, pp. 587–591; 2008, “Calendars With Olympiad Display and Eclipse Prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism,” Nature (London), 454, pp. 614–617; 2009, “Decoding an Ancient Computer,” Sci. Am., 301(6), pp. 76–83), which are in consistent with the science theories and techniques of the subject’s time period, are synthesized.

My Lady's Toilet

1946 ◽  
Vol 15 (44) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. T. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
White Lead ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Sedentary Life ◽  
At Home

The modern miss will sometimes ask, ‘Did the ladies in ancient Greece and Rome use “make-up”?’ They most certainly did. It would, indeed, be true to say that nearly all modern artificial aids to beauty had their counterparts in classical antiquity: hair, eyebrows, eyelids, eyelashes, and cheeks all had their own ‘preparations’ guaranteed to enhance woman's natural charms.In Homer, both sexes after washing anoint themselves with oil, but of cosmetics in the usual sense of the word there is no trace. Soon, however, the Greek ladies, finding, we are told, that the sedentary life imposed upon them by convention caused their complexions to fade, eagerly adopted those devices that the Eastern races had so long employed to add to their charms; and it is clear that the ladies of Rome became even more enthusiastic than their sisters in Athens in their endeavours to improve upon nature.Frequently my lady did not bother to use cosmetics when at home—Quando videri vult formosa domi? Juvenal asks in disgust—but on special occasions, or when going to meet an admirer, she appeared in all her brilliance. The aid of white lead (Ψרμύθιοѵ, cerussa) was often called upon to produce a fair complexion, although its use cannot have been wholly free from risk; or a chalky powder (creta) was employed. Means of reddening the cheeks were obtained from the alkanet root (ἂγχoυνσα)—a dye which is still used to-day; from the crushed fruit of the mulberry (συκἁμινoν, morum) or the elderberry(acinus ebuli); from the poppy (papaver); and from a plant which we cannot identify (παιέρως) but which was guaranteed to give ‘that schoolgirl complexion’ a darker tint could be obtained from a composite preparation known as purpurissum.

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