Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods

1. Verfasser: Castelli, Silvia, , [VerfasserIn]
Sluiter, I. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Amsterdam : Brill, 2023.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource
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Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 90-04-68000-4
Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • General introduction : agents of change / Silvia Castelli
  • Mosquitoes, molecules, and megafauna : who and what has agency in human history / J.R. McNeill
  • Builders, architects, and the power of context: agents of architectural change in fourth-century-BCE Epidaurus and Delphi / Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant
  • Agents of change around the Valley of the Muses / Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf
  • Callimachus vs. Conon : competing agents of change for the Lock of Berenice / Brett Evans
  • Anonymizing agents of change in philosophical pseudepigraphy : the case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute / Albert Joosse
  • Cicero and political agency in late-republican Rome / Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils
  • Primus Juvencus and other agents of change in the rise of Christian Latin poetry / Roald Dijkstra
  • John Cassian as an agent of change / Nienke Vos
  • Greek-Latin translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) : the agents that changed the Humanist translation movement / Annet den Haan
  • Erasmus, an unsuspected superspreader of new ancient Greek? / Raf Van Rooy.