{"product_id":"agents-of-change-in-the-greco-roman-and-early-modern-periods-ten-case-studies-in-agency-in-innovation-9789004680005","title":"Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods: Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the ‘superspreader’ of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Figures and Table   List of Contributors      General Introduction: Agents of Change    Silvia Castelli      1 Mosquitoes, Molecules, and Megafauna: Who and What Has Agency  in Human History    J.R. McNeill      2 Builders, Architects, and the Power of Context: Agents of Architectural Change in Fourth-Century-bce Epidaurus and Delphi    Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant      3 Agents of Change around the Valley of the Muses    Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf      4 Callimachus vs. Conon: Competing Agents of Change for the Lock  of Berenice    Brett Evans      5 Anonymizing Agents of Change in Philosophical Pseudepigraphy:  The Case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute    Albert Joosse      6 Cicero and Political Agency in Late-Republican Rome    Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils      7 Primus Juvencus and Other Agents of Change in the Rise of Christian Latin Poetry    Roald Dijkstra      8 John Cassian as an Agent of Change    Nienke Vos      9 Greek-Latin Translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447–1455): The Agents That Changed the Humanist Translation Movement    Annet den Haan      10 Erasmus, an Unsuspected Superspreader of New Ancient Greek?    Raf Van Rooy      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210871824727,"sku":"9789004680005","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/agents-of-change-in-the-greco-roman-and-early-modern-periods-ten-case-studies-in-agency-in-innovation-9789004680005","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}