Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods: Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation

Author:   Silvia Castelli ,  Ineke Sluiter
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   4
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9789004680005


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   24 August 2023
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Author:   Silvia Castelli ,  Ineke Sluiter
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9789004680005


ISBN 10:   9004680004
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   24 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Preface Figures and Table List of Contributors General Introduction: Agents of Change  Silvia Castelli 1 Mosquitoes, Molecules, and Megafauna: Who and What Has Agency in Human History  J.R. McNeill 2 Builders, Architects, and the Power of Context: Agents of Architectural Change in Fourth-Century-bce Epidaurus and Delphi  Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant 3 Agents of Change around the Valley of the Muses  Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf 4 Callimachus vs. Conon: Competing Agents of Change for the Lock of Berenice  Brett Evans 5 Anonymizing Agents of Change in Philosophical Pseudepigraphy: The Case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute  Albert Joosse 6 Cicero and Political Agency in Late-Republican Rome  Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils 7 Primus Juvencus and Other Agents of Change in the Rise of Christian Latin Poetry  Roald Dijkstra 8 John Cassian as an Agent of Change  Nienke Vos 9 Greek-Latin Translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447–1455): The Agents That Changed the Humanist Translation Movement  Annet den Haan 10 Erasmus, an Unsuspected Superspreader of New Ancient Greek?  Raf Van Rooy Index

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Silvia Castelli, Ph.D. (2019), VU Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor of New Testament. She has published on ancient Jewish literature in Greek and textual criticism, including Johann Jakob Wettstein’s Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism. A Fight for Scholarly Freedom, 2020. Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990), Leiden University, is Professor of ancient Greek. She has published on ancient and medieval linguistic thought, ancient values, ‘anchoring’ innovation, and cognition, including Minds on Stage. Greek Tragedy and Cognition (ed., with F.J. Budelmann), OUP 2023.

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