Andrea Capra, Barbara Graziosi

Gebundenes Buch

Classics, Love, Revolution

The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini

Beschreibung

In this volume Capra and Graziosi translate Luigi Settembrini's The Neoplatonists into English for the first time. They relate the tale to his life experiences, his political commitments, and his work as a classical scholar, offering a reassessment of the history of Italian sexuality, revolutionary thinking, and classical scholarship.

Autor

Andrea Capra is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Durham and retains an affiliation with the University of Milan, where he worked for many years. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton. He has published widely on Plato, Aristophanes, lyric poetry, the reception of ancient Greece, and the Greek novel. He enjoys writing for a general readership: his Italian translation of Aristophanes' Assemblywomen won the Monselice Prize for translation. His version of the play was staged at the ancient Theatre of Dionysos in Syracuse. Barbara Graziosi is Ewing Professor of Greek Literature and Chair of Classics, Princeton University. Before moving to the USA, she taught at the University of Durham, where she also served as Arts and Humanities Director of its IAS. She has published widely on early Greek poetry, fictional biography, and classical reception. Her first interdisciplinary research project, Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry, was funded by the European Research Council; her second, Logion: Machine Learning for Greek Philology is supported by a Princeton University 'Magic Grant'. Her books have been translated into several languages; her essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and Il Manifesto . She regularly contributes to radio and television programmes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198865445
• ISBN-10: 0198865449
• Artikelnr.: 69721008