Remembering Parthenope
The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 2015
- ISBN 9780199673933
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 223x157x26 mm
- Weight 678 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 62 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation.
MoreLong description:
This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation. Adopting a chronological approach, chapters examine important moments in Naples' reception history from the Roman period (when the city was already several centuries old) to the present day.
Among the topics covered are representations of the city's early history and mythology in texts and temples of the Roman period; later uses of Roman spolia (marble sculptures and architectural elements) in Christian churches; the importance of antiquity to the rulers of the Angevin and Swabian periods; the appropriation of the city's classical heritage by Renaissance humanists; the image of the 'local' poets Virgil and Statius in later eras; humanist images of the ancient aqueducts and catacombs that ran beneath the city; representations of classical monuments in early modern city guides; images of ancient ruins in contemporary Catholic nativity scenes; and the archaeology and philosophy of the city's Metro system.
Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary range of scholars, this comprehensive volume provides a highly accessible point of entry into the vast bibliography on ancient Naples.
This stimulating story of Parthenope's city is taken on the present day in three parts and sixteen chapters. These range through the study of the Temple of the Dioscuri, now part of a church, to early city guidebooks, from the construction of the Metro to the Camorra-controlled rubbish collectors' strike in 2009.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Entering the Siren's City
Setting the Agenda: The Image of Classical Naples in Strabo's Geography and other Ancient Literary Sources
The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Mythic Origins of Neapolis
Colonizing the Past: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity in Hellenistic and Roman Naples
Greek Magistrates in Roman Naples? Law and Memory from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD
Between Classical and Modern Naples: 'Cultural Forgetting' at the Time of the Gothic War
Marmora Romana in Medieval Naples: Architectural Spolia from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries AD
Virgiliana Neapolis urbs: Receptions of Classical Naples in the Swabian and Early Angevin Ages
Naples: A Poets' City and its Attitude towards Virgil and Statius in the Fifteenth Century
Memories from the Subsoil: Discovering Antiquities in Fifteenth-Century Naples
City Branding and the Antique: Naples in Early Modern City Guides
Ex dirutis marmoribus: The Theatins and the Columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Naples
Reshaping the Past, Shaping the Present: De Jorio and Naples' Classical Heritage
'No Retreat, Even When Broken': Classical Architecture in the Presepe Napoletano
Neapolis and the Future of Naples' Museums
Parthenope on the Metro: or, Links with the Past, on the Journey into the Future
Bibliography
Index
