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that reveal patterns of thought. Sometimes authors' copies of Greek and Latin texts will contain handwritten annotations that offer direct evidence of how they read and understood their classical models; for instance, in the late 20th century the discovery of
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went to bed in antiquity and awoke in the medieval world; rather, the cultural transformation occurred over centuries. The use and meaning of the classical tradition may seem, however, to change dramatically with the emergence of
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are three major examples of how classical culture survives and continues to have influence. The West is one of a number of world cultures regarded as having a classical tradition, including the
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and "creative misunderstandings" that reinterpret ancient values, ideas and aesthetic models for contemporary use. The classicist and translator
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has defined the reception of classical antiquity as "a two-way process ... in which the present and the past are in dialogue with each other."
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West, involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture, cultural artifacts, rituals, practices, and sayings.
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Writers and artists influenced by the classical tradition may name their ancient models, or
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The phrase "classical tradition" is itself a modern label, articulated most notably in the
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Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture.
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The beginning of a self-conscious classical tradition is usually located in the
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Reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by the post-classical Western world
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Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: An Annotated Bibliography 1961–1991.
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enabled scholars to document an influence that had long been recognized.
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The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
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Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, preface to
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to their works. Often scholars infer classical influence through
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Siting Federico Barocci and the Renaissance Aesthetic
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Kuzmanović, Zorica; Mihajlović, Vladimir D. (2015).
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Grafton, Most, and Settis, entry on "mythology", in
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carrying his father and leading his son from fallen
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Index

Classicism

Vergil
Dante
Inferno
Delacroix
Western
reception
classical Greco-Roman antiquity
post-classical
Philosophy
political thought
mythology
Indian
Chinese
Islamic
classical philology
Greco-Roman world
Charles Martindale
Renaissance
Petrarch
14th-century Italy
Middle Ages
Roman Empire
humanism

Aeneas
Troy
Creusa
Federico Barocci

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