"Antiquity and Its Reception: Modern Expressions of the Past" ed. by Helena Trindade Lopes, Maria De Fatima Rosa, Isabel Almeid

This volume is dedicated to antiquity and its modern reception - an ancient age or ancient world and first steps in the history of man on earth.

What do we talk about when we talk about antiquity? For the majority of the population, the term immediately transports us to the notion of an ancient age or ancient world (the Parthenon, Athens, and the Coliseum of Rome), which condenses in itself the Greco-Roman world. This reduces antiquity to antiquity that was structurally essential for the construction and emergence of the civilization called occidental. For others, because of their religious backgrounds, antiquity goes back in time and enlarges, in part, its space of action, allowing the emergence of Palestine as a primordial territory. But these two visions (old and supported by a scientific ignorance of the ancient geographies and chronologies) enclose the history in a limited time and space. As if there would never have been a world before that time. As if the civilization that we comfortably call ourselves as inheritors, the so-called "Occidental Civilization" was the first step in the history of man on earth.


Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: The Importance of Reception Studies for Ancient History
2.Late Antiquity: Then and Now
3.The Immutability of the Core Construction of a Chair: The Building Techniques from Ancient Egypt to Contemporaneity
4.Enlightenment and Neoclassicism in La Clemenza di Tito of Mozart: An Historical-Legal Perspective
5.Reuse and Re-conversion of the Monumental Heritage in Naples