Classical tradition
The
The study of the classical tradition differs from
History
The beginning of a self-conscious classical tradition is usually located in the Renaissance, with the work of Petrarch in 14th-century Italy.[9] Although Petrarch believed that he was recovering an unobstructed view of a classical past that had been obscured for centuries, the classical tradition in fact had continued uninterrupted during the Middle Ages.[10] There was no single moment of rupture when the inhabitants of what was formerly the Roman Empire went to bed in antiquity and awoke in the medieval world; rather, the cultural transformation occurred over centuries. The use and meaning of the classical tradition may seem, however, to change dramatically with the emergence of humanism.[11]
The phrase "classical tradition" is itself a modern label, articulated most notably in the post-World War II era with The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature of Gilbert Highet (1949) and The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries of R. R. Bolgar (1954). The English word "tradition", and with it the concept of "handing down" classical culture, derives from the Latin verb trado, tradere, traditus, in the sense of "hand over, hand down."[13]
Writers and artists influenced by the classical tradition may name their ancient models, or
See also
- Classics
- Classical reception studies
- Classical republicanism
- Greek mythology in western art and literature
- Legacy of the Roman Empire
- List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology
- List of films based on Greek drama
- Matter of Rome
- Neoclassicism
- Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
- Transmission of the Classics
- Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination
References
- ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. viii–ix.
- ^ Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. vii–viii.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. viii.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, entry on "mythology", in The Classical Tradition, p. 614 et passim.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. x.
- ^ Craig W. Kallendorf, introduction to A Companion to the Classical Tradition (Blackwell, 2007), p. 2.
- ^ Grafton, Most, and Settis, preface to The Classical Tradition, p. vii; Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 2.
- ^ Charles Martindale, "Reception", in A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2007), p. 298.
- ^ Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 1.
- ^ Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 2.
- ^ Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, pp. 1–2.
- ^ Peter Gillgren, Siting Federico Barocci and the Renaissance Aesthetic (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 165–167.
- ^ Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 1.
- ^ Kallendorf, introduction to Companion, p. 2.
Further reading
- Barkan, Leonard. Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. Yale University Press, 1999).
- Cook, William W., and Tatum, James. African American Writers and Classical Tradition. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Kuzmanović, Zorica; Mihajlović, Vladimir D. (2015). "Roman Emperors and Identity Constructions in Modern Serbia". Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 22 (4): 416–432.
- Walker, Lewis. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: An Annotated Bibliography 1961–1991. Routledge, 2002.