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Item Number: 132158
Title: Remembering Parthenope : The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present
Author: Hughes, Jessica ; Claudio Buongiovanni (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199673933
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 23cm., hardcover, 416pp., 62 illus.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Entering the Siren's City, Claudio Buongiovanni and Jessica Hughes. 2. Setting the Agenda: The Image of Classical Naples in Strabo's Geography and other Ancient Literary Sources, Lorenzo Miletti. 3. The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Mythic Origins of Neapolis, Rabun Taylor. 4. Colonizing the Past: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity in Hellenistic and Roman Naples, Kathryn Lomas. 5. Greek Magistrates in Roman Naples? Law and Memory from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD, Mauro De Nardis. 6. Between Classical and Modern Naples: 'Cultural Forgetting' at the Time of the Gothic War, Giovanni Polara. 7. Marmora Romana in Medieval Naples: Architectural Spolia from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries AD, Angela Palmentieri. 8. Virgiliana Neapolis urbs: Receptions of Classical Naples in the Swabian and Early Angevin Ages, Fulvio Delle Donne. 9. Naples: A Poets' City and its Attitude towards Virgil and Statius in the Fifteenth Century, Giancarlo Abbamonte. 10. Memories from the Subsoil: Discovering Antiquities in Fifteenth-Century Naples, Bianca de Divitiis. 11. City Branding and the Antique: Naples in Early Modern City Guides, Harald Hendrix. 12. Ex dirutis marmoribus: The Theatins and the Columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Naples, Fulvio Lenzo. 13. Reshaping the Past, Shaping the Present: De Jorio and Naples' Classical Heritage,Annalisa Marzano. 14. 'No Retreat, Even When Broken': Classical Architecture in the Presepe Napoletano,Jessica Hughes. 15. Neapolis and the Future of Naples' Museums, Stefano De Caro. 16. Parthenope on the Metro: or, Links with the Past, on the Journey into the Future,Luigi Spina. (Classical Presences)

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