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The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
  • Edited by Pantelis Michelakis, Maria Wyke
  • Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    15 August 2013
  • In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have received the critical attention they deserve. The films in question, ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, cartoons and documentaries, suggest a fascination with the ancient world that competes in intensity and breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. What contribution did antiquity make to the development of early cinema? How did early cinema's representations affect modern understanding of antiquity? Existing prints as well as ephemera scattered in film archives and libraries around the world constitute an enormous field of research. This extensively illustrated edited collection is a first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in twentieth-century conceptions of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.

  • 18 - Greek lyric from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century

  • from Part III: - Reception
  • Edited by Felix Budelmann, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
    Published online:
    28 May 2010
    Print publication:
    30 April 2009, pp 336-351

  • Summary

    This chapter looks at a period with a decisive role in the formation of what we understand today as 'Greek lyric poetry'. The importance of this period is no smaller than and certainly not independent from other decisive periods in the creation of the idea of early Greek lyric, most notably those associated with Hellenistic scholarship, Roman poetry and the literature and criticism of later antiquity. To use post-Romantic period terminology, the era examined here spans from the emergence of Renaissance humanism to the classicism of the seventeenth century and the neo-classicism and early romanticism of the eighteenth century. The period under consideration begins with the appearance of the first printed editions and translations of Greek lyric poets in the sixteenth century. The invention of the printing press had an instrumental role in the rediscovery of Greek lyric poets and their dissemination as a collective body of poetry, as did the emergence and consolidation of lyric as a distinct genre of modern European poetry and literary theory. Greek lyric poetry had not entered the didactic, rhetorical and poetic canons of the Middle Ages in the West for a host of reasons related to its linguistic and metrical features and its thematic and generic preoccupations. Before the sixteenth century and the arrival from the East of learned scholars and important manuscripts, Greek lyric poets were virtually unknown, and their names were recycled largely for the attention they received in more canonical authors such as Horace and Cicero.

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