Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.323-340

Anja Božič

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The Posthuman and Irish Antigones: Rights, Revolt, Extinction 后人类与爱尔兰安提戈涅:权利、反抗、灭绝

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.211-247

Natasha Remoundou

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Ancient Athenian Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Leftist Criticism of Stalinist Russia 古雅典民主、工人委员会与左派对斯大林主义俄国的批评

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.47-67

Vittorio Saldutti

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Five-Year Plans, Explorers, Luniks, and Socialist Humanism: Anton Sovre and His Blueprint for Classics in Slovenia 五年计划、探索者、鲁尼克和社会主义人道主义：Anton Sovre和他的斯洛文尼亚经典蓝图

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.249-274

David Movrin

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Benedetto Bravo (1931), University of Warsaw 贝内代托·布拉沃(1931)，华沙大学

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.303-307

Adrian Szopa, Andrzej Gillmeister, Elżbieta Olechowska

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A Proletarian Classics? 无产阶级经典？

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.9-25

Henry Stead

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Revolution in Antiquity: The Classicizing Fiction of Naomi Mitchison 古代革命:内奥米·米奇逊小说的经典化

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.155-179

Barbara Goff

{"title":"Revolution in Antiquity: The Classicizing Fiction of Naomi Mitchison","authors":"Barbara Goff","doi":"10.4312/clotho.4.2.155-179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.155-179","url":null,"abstract":"The writer and activist Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999) came from a prominent establishment family but was a member of the Labour Party and the wife of a Labour MP. Her work was explicitly marked by the Russian Revolution, even when she wrote about antiquity. In the 1920s and 1930s, she produced a number of works of historical fiction set in ancient Greece and Rome, which were highly regarded at the time. The works use the canvas of antiquity to experiment with many forms of political and social radicalism, with a challenging focus on female sexuality. The article discusses four specific representations of revolution which mobilize female agency in ways that are themselves highly unconventional. However, these representations also invoke the Fraserian figure of the dying king who leads the revolution to disaster, compromising the revolutionary energy. This tension speaks to Mitchison’s own contradictory social positioning as a patrician radical. In 1972, however, the novel Cleopatra’s People revisits the theme and stages a more successful uprising. This novel is centered on the sacrificial queen instead of a king, it enlists a mass of people, and saves the revolution by hiding its key figures in Africa. During her final excursion into antiquity, Mitchison thus found a way to press history into useful service.","PeriodicalId":33790,"journal":{"name":"Clotho","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47830308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Crushing the Imperial(ist) Eagles: Nationalism, Ideological Instruction, and Adventure in the Bulgarian Comics about Spartacus – the 1980s and Beyond

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.101-124

Miryana Dimitrova

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“And so with the moderns”: The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus “现代人也是如此”：莱斯利·米切尔《斯巴达克斯》中革命作家的角色与历史的神话化

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.127-152

Scott Lyall

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Kazimierz Majewski: A Marxist among Classicists Kazimierz Majewski：古典主义者中的马克思主义者

Clotho Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.4312/clotho.4.2.277-296

Elżbieta Olechowska

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