Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Memory and reworking of ancient epic in the culture of “long Eighteenth Century”
This issue is the development of the panel Memory and reshaping of ancient epics in eighteenth-century culture presented at the XVI Congress of studies on the eighteenth century promoted by the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS-SIEDS). The papers hereby presented address, in various forms, the radical cultural transition which between eighteenth and nineteenth century renewed, without betraying it, the classical foundation of the epic genre: a complex transformation involving both translations, as well as the recovery of patterns and models, as well as the epicization of contemporary history, of new technologies, of new science. A characterizing feature of this epic reuse is the hybridization of the poem with other genres, as also emerges in the papers of the final section of the issue, stemmed from the panel Antiquity in the mirror of Arcadia at the ISECS-SIEDS Congress.
