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- "Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the 'superspreader' of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation"--
- Series Statement
- Euhormos : Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 2590-1796 ; 4
- Uniform Title
- Agents of change in the Greco-Roman and early modern periods (Online)
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Contents
- General introduction : agents of change / Silvia Castelli -- Mosquitoes, molecules, and megafauna : who and what has agency in human history / J.R. McNeill -- Builders, architects, and the power of context: agents of architectural change in fourth-century-BCE Epidaurus and Delphi / Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant -- Agents of change around the Valley of the Muses / Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf -- Callimachus vs. Conon : competing agents of change for the Lock of Berenice / Brett Evans -- Anonymizing agents of change in philosophical pseudepigraphy : the case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute / Albert Joosse -- Cicero and political agency in late-republican Rome / Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils -- Primus Juvencus and other agents of change in the rise of Christian Latin poetry / Roald Dijkstra -- John Cassian as an agent of change / Nienke Vos -- Greek-Latin translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) : the agents that changed the Humanist translation movement / Annet den Haan -- Erasmus, an unsuspected superspreader of new ancient Greek? / Raf Van Rooy.
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- 2023026583
- OCLC
- ssj0002905035
- Title
Agents of change in the Greco-Roman and early modern periods [electronic resource] : ten case studies in agency in innovation / edited by Silvia Castelli, Ineke Sluiter.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Euhormos : Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 2590-1796 ; 4
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access restricted to authorized users.
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Castelli, Silvia, 1973-
Sluiter, I. (Ineke)