Abbreviations 35999.indb 10 11/07/2019 14:48'Too bad Hippocrates didn't have Twitter 2,400 years ago, because he's a pretty quotable guy. ' 1 This is how a 2017 article from the Australian Fitness Network by a sports nutrition specialist, aimed at those working in the fitness industry, summarizes the current value of Hippocrates to the modern world, before exploring various things he is supposed to have said; these include 'Let food be your medicine, ' 'Walking is the best medicine' and 'The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. ' While he is by no means the only figure from the ancient world for whom there are lists of 'quotes' online, 2 whose 'words' are tweeted daily, who features as a common topic for secondary school projects, and for whom programmes, institutes, prizes, products and an online medical news service -the Hippocratic Post -are currently named, I believe that Hippocrates offers a particularly striking example of how the classical world is received outside the academy today. 3 Hippocrates' role in medicine remains exceptional; as Julius Rocca noted, 'Few, if any other professional bodies today either lay claim to an abiding relationship to a figure from classical antiquity or attempt to make use of one. ' 4 In the comparable case of Socrates, for whom there already exists a full study of his reception, 5 his name tends to feature in connection with various educational initiatives, such as the Aspen Institute's Socrates Program, 'a forum for emerging leaders (approximately ages 28-45) from various professions to convene and explore contemporary issues through expert-moderated dialogue' . The bilingual Socrates Academy in Matthews, North Carolina uses the Socratic method to teach the three Rs. 6 Socrates is known today for a method of 'moderated dialogue' as well as for his challenge to state religion, whereas the name of Hippocrates often carries a far more practical, material dimension: an electric juicer, a 'miraculous' face cream, a soup and a highly-controversial residential raw-food Receiving HippocratesWhen I taught at the University of Reading, we offered a third-year classical reception course called 'Uses and Abuses of Antiquity' . It raised the question of where, if anywhere, we should draw the line between a valid 'use' and an invalid 35999.indb 2 11/07/2019 14:48Hippocratic Oath, to which I shall return in Chapter 4. John Harley Warner argues that, until the last third of the nineteenth century, history rather than science was the true source of orthodox physicians' authority; the power of 'two millennia of enduring tradition' summoned by the name of Hippocrates provided them with a lineage, which in turn gave them legitimacy over the various 'irregular' practitioners. 32 In this historical rewriting, Hippocrates was 'highly malleable' . Some praised him unconditionally, and others criticized him for ignorance -for example, in confusing veins and arteries -or for holding 'absurd' views, but such criticisms could be qualified on the grounds t...

Victorian refigurations of the Cassandra myth ferment throughout the long eighteenth century, when new theatrical modes put into practice prevailing aesthetic theories that gave prominence to the visual over the verbal. This chapter examines the range of prophetic Cassandras, from the Shakespearean raving prophetess to the palm-reading Gypsies of the 1860s. Such variations can only be given full expression on the stage, where a set of gestures, costumes, and sociocultural referents develop new cultural, inter-theatrical, and semiotic systems. Performing as the epic Cassandra also triggered the career of a number of actresses and dancers who found in Cassandra the perfect means to prove their performing skills to the audience. At a time when women’s access to knowledge was being disputed, the Cassandra myth provided fertile soil wherein to test and contest the role of women in society.

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RESUMENEl objetivo de este artículo es el estudio de la figura de Eco en la literatura contemporánea escrita en lengua inglesa a partir de trabajos de A.S. Byatt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Nicole Ward Jouve y Moniza Alvi entre otros. En poesía, teatro y relatos cortos, analizamos a Eco primero desde la literatura crítica publicada sobre la ninfa y posteriormente desde la perspectiva de oposiciones binarias uno/otro, metrópolis/colonia, palabra/silencio. Consideradas en conjunto, las obras revisadas en este artículo demuestran cómo la recepción del mito en la literatura contemporánea se encuentra estrechamente ligada a la evolución del concepto del doble en la cultura occidental. PALABRAS CLAVEEco, recepción, literatura inglesa, doble. THE DOUBLE OF THE WORD. THE MYTH OF ECHO IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACTThis article explores the figure of Echo in contemporary English literature focusing on works by A.S. Byatt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Nicole Ward Jouve and Moniza Alvi among others. After an introduction on the secondary literature published on the nymph, Echo is analyzed under the perspective of opposites such as self/other, metropolis/colony, word/silence in poetry, theatre and short stories. Considered en masse, the works discussed in this article manifest how the reception of Echo is closely linked to the concept of the double in Western cultures.

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