Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 118781051
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350125612
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume stems from a three-day international conference held at University College London in June 2014, the first to explore a new area of classical reception. It received external funding from various sources including the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the CA, SPHS, and Gilbert Murray Trust, as well as the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Society of Latin American Studies. Of the twenty-three papers that were presented at the conference, thirteen appear in this volume in entirely reworked versions; there is also an additional commissioned chapter. Our careful selection resulted in a volume that features contributors who are not only prominent scholars based in Brazil, Chile, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, and US but also represent a variety of disciplines, including Classics, Hispanic Literatures, Latin American Studies and Theatre Studies. This care was necessary for a ground-breaking volume which contributes to new thinking and practices in classical reception for a relatively unexplored geographic context. I am the sole author of one chapter, ‘Distorting the Lysistrata Paradigm in Puerto Rico’ (pp. 131-143). I also co-wrote the introduction with my co-editor, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, ‘Staging the European Classical in “Latin” America’ which provides a crucial overview of the study of classical reception in Latin America (pp. 1-15); this is only such account that exists to date. Over a five-year period, my co-editor and I worked closely with each other and with contributors to ensure coherence. In addition to helping contributors develop their intellectual framework, our work also involved suggesting revisions, integrating cross-references, ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency (including the bibliography: pp. 257–283), writing the index, and translating/correcting English of international scholars. The nature of these contributions is acknowledged by individual contributors throughout the volume (e.g. on p. 217, 220, 224, 241, 243, 253).
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