There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity
- The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature.
| Author details: | Alicia MatzORCiD, Maciej PaprockiORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228 |
| ISSN: | 2364-7612 |
| Title of parent work (English): | thersites 15 |
| Editor(s): | Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger, Christine Walde |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/10/27 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2022/11/01 |
| Tag: | Tolkien; classical reception |
| Volume: | 2022 |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Number of pages: | 12 |
| First page: | i |
| Last Page: | xii |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
| DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / thersites, ISSN 2364-7612 / thersites Vol. 15 |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
