Anachronism and Antiquity
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1399
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781350115200
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000-word monograph is the first extensive discussion of anachronism in antiquity. It analyses an original collection of visual material and textual evidence drawn from numerous Greek and Latin authors from Homer to Macrobius; much of the primary material was gathered by Rood over several years prior to the award of the 3-year research grant in which the book was written. The topics covered include the development of the vocabulary of anachronism; theoretical ideas of historical difference and of multi-temporality; anachronism in epic, tragedy, and philosophical dialogues; and the development of chronological scholarship in antiquity and the early modern period.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The book's origins lie in an exploratory workshop Rood organised in 2015 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, at which he presented a collection of material on ancient anachronism and on the history of anachronism. He expanded this collection in preparing an application to the Leverhulme Trust's Research Project Grant scheme, for which he was the Principal Investigator and his co-authors, Carol Atack and Tom Phillips, Post-doctoral Research Associates. While this book was Rood?s major contribution to the project, Atack and Phillips worked on separate monographs (on Plato and Apollonius respectively, the former still in preparation, the latter published). While the team met regularly to discuss the concept of anachronism and successive drafts, Rood was responsible for developing the book's structure and for about two-thirds of the writing. He researched and wrote the first draft of the following chapters: Prelude: Look to the End; Ch. 1, Inventing Anachronism; (most of) Ch. 2, Anachronistic Histories; Interlude 1: Dido versus Virgil; (most of) Ch. 4, Anachronism and Chronology (Atack suggested the inclusion of Scaliger, whom Rood then used to structure the chapter); Interlude 3: Aeneas in the Underworld; and Epilogue: Crowning the Victors. Rood shared with Phillips the writing of: Ch. 3, Anachronism and Philology (Rood built on a draft by Phillips that made considerable use of material he had collected); Interlude 2: Ariadne on Naxos; and Ch. 7, Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments. Rood shared with Atack the writing of Ch. 5, Anachronistic Survivals (he built on a draft by Atack, introducing two new sections). The writing of the first drafts of Ch. 6, Anachronism and Exemplarity, and Ch. 8, Anachronistic Dialogues, was evenly split, but, as for the rest of the book, Rood did the final polishing.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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