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Classical reception

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Classical reception (Q810): The study of the impact of Greek and Roman literary and visual culture on subsequent cultures.

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Link 18th CENTURY LONDON - MAP

This link takes you to an intuitive GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth...

London, 18th century, Collections, Collectors, Historical Maps, Enlightenment view
Link A VISUAL GLOSSARY OF GREEK VASES

This link takes you to a visual glossary of Greek vases - shapes, descriptions and images.

vases, ceramics, Attic Black Figure, Attic Red Figure, Collections, Collectors, Greek art view
Link ACROPOLIS RESTORATION SERVICE (YSMA)

This link gives you video excerpts from the dismantlement and transportation of metopes from the Parthenon to the Acropolis Museum. The Acropolis...

rthen view
Link ANTIQUITÉS ÉTRUSQUES, GRECQUES ET ROMAINES (AEGR)

This link takes you to a digitised version of Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines, ou les beaux vases étrusques, grecs et romains, et...

Sir William Hamilton, Baron d'Hancarville, ANTIQUITÉS ÉTRUSQUES, GRECQUES ET ROMAINES, Greek art, Attic Red Figure, Attic Black Figure, vases, 18th century, Enlightenment view
Link APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER CALYX KRATER. GR 1772.3-20.26 (Vase E 460)

This link takes you to an image, plus further information and links, of the Greek Calyx-krater (wine bowl), circa 440...

Apotheosis of Homer, Attic Red Figure, vases, Sir William Hamilton, Collectors, Greek art view
Course British Collectors of Classical Antiquities

This course is an exploration of British collectors of classical antiquities, their activities and attitudes, and the wider influence of this...

Sir John Soane, Sir William Hamilton, Elgin Marbles, Ashmolean Musem, Dilettanti, C.R. Cockerell, Lord Elgiin, Collectors, Enlightenment, Long 18th Century, Arundel Marbles, Pomfret Marbles, Wedgwood view
Link CHANDLER, REVETT & PARS: IONIAN ANTIQUITIES

This link takes you to a website where you can browse Ionian Antiquities, published with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R....

Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett, William Pars, Society of Dilettani, Ionian Antiquities, Architectural plans, Greek architecture, Architecture, 18th century, Enlightenment view
Link CICERO v VERRES

This link gives you more information about Cicero's prosecution of Verres.

Cicero, Verres, Sicily, Plunder, Pillage, Rhetoric view
Link CICERO: 1st ORATION AGAINST VERRES

This link takes you to an English translation of Cicero's 1st Oration Against Verres.

Cicero, Verres, Rhetoric, Plunder, Pillage, Collections, Collectors, roman world, Classics view
Link CICERO: IN VERREM 2.4

This link takes you to an English translation of Cicero's speech In Verrem 2.4.

Cicero, Verres, Rhetoric, Pillage, Plunder, Piracy, Ancient rome, Sicily view
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