Enenkel K.A., de Long J.L., de Landtsheer J. (eds.) Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period

Leiden: Brill, 2001. — 470 p.Modern artists, historians and writers have always looked back on the Classical past for inspiration and as a source of factual material. This group of essays looks at how these people have represented or recreated history from ancient sources such as Plutarch, Polybius, Lipsius, and many others. The contributors study aspects of classical historiography as well as examining art and literature from the 15th to 18th century in terms of the aims and motives of their creators, whether they used ancient sources in the original language or in translation, their use of later commentaries, their manipulation and adaptation of sources, the audience they were serving and how sharing in the glory of the past enabled them to legitimise the present. Sixteen papers in English and one in German.Preface
The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period
Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the “Sala di Costantino” in the Vatican Palace
Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis
Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius’s Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582)
Justus Lipsius’s De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare
“The Grandeur that was Rome”: Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius’s Admiranda
Civic Self Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius
Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography
Plutarch’s Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare’s View of Roman History
The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710)
The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller’s Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus’s Legislation
Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar
The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531–1584)
The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander’s Schilder-bocck
Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret’s Julius Caesar
Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier’s La mort de César (1709)
The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed — Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina
List of Illustrations
Index
List of Contributors