James I. Porter
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199212989
- eISBN:
- 9780191594205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212989.003.0013
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The chapter examines Erich Auerbach's contrastive analysis from 1942 of Homer and the Jewish Old Testament, situating that analysis firmly in its immediate historical context of German fascism, ...
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The chapter examines Erich Auerbach's contrastive analysis from 1942 of Homer and the Jewish Old Testament, situating that analysis firmly in its immediate historical context of German fascism, anti‐Semitism, and exile. The thesis is that by indexing the present historical moment in his reading, Auerbach, the displaced German Jew in Istanbul, is historicizing philology. At the same time he is inverting the political polarities of philology, not least by contrasting the two treatments (Homeric, biblical‐Jewish) of time, truth, and revelation in the two traditions that he is less comparing than critically pitting against each other. And he is undertaking all this in opposition to the ingrained tendencies of an anti‐Semitic classical philology and in the context of efforts in Germany to de‐Judaize Christianity. While he is remembered today as the founder of comparative literature, Auerbach is in fact Judaizing philology; that is, he is constructing a new oppositional Jewish philology that departs dramatically from the conventions of classical philology and romance philology.Less
The chapter examines Erich Auerbach's contrastive analysis from 1942 of Homer and the Jewish Old Testament, situating that analysis firmly in its immediate historical context of German fascism, anti‐Semitism, and exile. The thesis is that by indexing the present historical moment in his reading, Auerbach, the displaced German Jew in Istanbul, is historicizing philology. At the same time he is inverting the political polarities of philology, not least by contrasting the two treatments (Homeric, biblical‐Jewish) of time, truth, and revelation in the two traditions that he is less comparing than critically pitting against each other. And he is undertaking all this in opposition to the ingrained tendencies of an anti‐Semitic classical philology and in the context of efforts in Germany to de‐Judaize Christianity. While he is remembered today as the founder of comparative literature, Auerbach is in fact Judaizing philology; that is, he is constructing a new oppositional Jewish philology that departs dramatically from the conventions of classical philology and romance philology.
Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637980
- eISBN:
- 9780748670758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637980.003.0026
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
The late 19th and early 20th century is a landmark in the history of the study of the Greek gods. In this paper, I examine key models of interpretation of the Greek gods in Germany and Britain at ...
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The late 19th and early 20th century is a landmark in the history of the study of the Greek gods. In this paper, I examine key models of interpretation of the Greek gods in Germany and Britain at this period with a focus on Apollo. On the German side, I examine the nature-mythological model of W.H. Roscher, the Sondergötter of H. Usener, and the Universal gods of E. Curtius. On the British side, I look at novel approaches inspired by anthropology and later sociology in the work of L.R. Farnell and J.E. Harrison. I am particularly interested in the ways in which interpretation reflected the values and the agendas of the interpreter and his/her times.Less
The late 19th and early 20th century is a landmark in the history of the study of the Greek gods. In this paper, I examine key models of interpretation of the Greek gods in Germany and Britain at this period with a focus on Apollo. On the German side, I examine the nature-mythological model of W.H. Roscher, the Sondergötter of H. Usener, and the Universal gods of E. Curtius. On the British side, I look at novel approaches inspired by anthropology and later sociology in the work of L.R. Farnell and J.E. Harrison. I am particularly interested in the ways in which interpretation reflected the values and the agendas of the interpreter and his/her times.
Annabel Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199242337
- eISBN:
- 9780191714108
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199242337.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The narrative of this chapter covers Harrison's early years in London and on the continent. It traces the influence of Sidney Colvin, Charles Newton, Karl Otfried Müller, Ernst Curtius, and Heinrich ...
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The narrative of this chapter covers Harrison's early years in London and on the continent. It traces the influence of Sidney Colvin, Charles Newton, Karl Otfried Müller, Ernst Curtius, and Heinrich Brunn. During this period she published Myths of the Odyssey, a pioneer attempt to trace the development of myths over time through their representation in art. It describes her lectures at the British Museum, University Extension lectures, lectures at boys' schools, and at the Society for Hellenic Studies. She published in the Magazine of Art, Journal of Hellenic Studies, and Classical Review. Her social world is also described, as is her involvement with the theatrical production The Tale of Troy and her appearance in the title role in the OUDS performance of Euripides' Alcestis.Less
The narrative of this chapter covers Harrison's early years in London and on the continent. It traces the influence of Sidney Colvin, Charles Newton, Karl Otfried Müller, Ernst Curtius, and Heinrich Brunn. During this period she published Myths of the Odyssey, a pioneer attempt to trace the development of myths over time through their representation in art. It describes her lectures at the British Museum, University Extension lectures, lectures at boys' schools, and at the Society for Hellenic Studies. She published in the Magazine of Art, Journal of Hellenic Studies, and Classical Review. Her social world is also described, as is her involvement with the theatrical production The Tale of Troy and her appearance in the title role in the OUDS performance of Euripides' Alcestis.
Gayle Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199914975
- eISBN:
- 9780199980192
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199914975.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Chapter One details the collaborations between these two reviews that eventually led to their joining a pan-European writing contest in 1929 within a network of modernist periodicals. The story of ...
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Chapter One details the collaborations between these two reviews that eventually led to their joining a pan-European writing contest in 1929 within a network of modernist periodicals. The story of how Eliot’s and Ortega’s reviews came to align with one another originates in both editors’ desire to unite an elite international vanguard of disinterested writers and thinkers. I analyze the ways in which the Criterion and the Revista de Occidente promoted often unpopular Europeanizing cultural politics in England and in Spain, and did so in part by crafting their critical voices around one another and around the writers and histories of the other’s nation. Largely outside of the expertise of either editor, these Anglo-Spanish journalistic relations were created by the translators and correspondents they employed, especially Antonio Marichalar and E. R. Curtius. The cosmopolitan attachments to Spanish literature and culture in the Criterion and to British modernism in the Revista de Occidente proved key to both reviews as they authorized their own marginal continental visions and combated fatalistic arguments about Europe and the West. In fact, against the history of Spain’s characterization by northern Europe—Kant in particular—the new cultural expressions of Spain’s “Moorish” blood were actually invoked in defense of these redefinitions of Europe.Less
Chapter One details the collaborations between these two reviews that eventually led to their joining a pan-European writing contest in 1929 within a network of modernist periodicals. The story of how Eliot’s and Ortega’s reviews came to align with one another originates in both editors’ desire to unite an elite international vanguard of disinterested writers and thinkers. I analyze the ways in which the Criterion and the Revista de Occidente promoted often unpopular Europeanizing cultural politics in England and in Spain, and did so in part by crafting their critical voices around one another and around the writers and histories of the other’s nation. Largely outside of the expertise of either editor, these Anglo-Spanish journalistic relations were created by the translators and correspondents they employed, especially Antonio Marichalar and E. R. Curtius. The cosmopolitan attachments to Spanish literature and culture in the Criterion and to British modernism in the Revista de Occidente proved key to both reviews as they authorized their own marginal continental visions and combated fatalistic arguments about Europe and the West. In fact, against the history of Spain’s characterization by northern Europe—Kant in particular—the new cultural expressions of Spain’s “Moorish” blood were actually invoked in defense of these redefinitions of Europe.
Laurel Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199668892
- eISBN:
- 9780191751219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668892.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
The fourth chapter discusses Alexander the Great’s expressions of remorse after his drunken murder of the courtier Cleitus. Here the dark side of remorse emerges more clearly, for his remorse is ...
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The fourth chapter discusses Alexander the Great’s expressions of remorse after his drunken murder of the courtier Cleitus. Here the dark side of remorse emerges more clearly, for his remorse is treated by most of the sources as either simply performative, or as genuine, but pointless, for it does not ameliorate his behaviour.Less
The fourth chapter discusses Alexander the Great’s expressions of remorse after his drunken murder of the courtier Cleitus. Here the dark side of remorse emerges more clearly, for his remorse is treated by most of the sources as either simply performative, or as genuine, but pointless, for it does not ameliorate his behaviour.
Michael D. Konaris
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198737896
- eISBN:
- 9780191801426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737896.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
The second chapter examines the theory that rather than being associated with specific elements of the natural world, the major Greek gods had originally been conceived as having universal powers and ...
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The second chapter examines the theory that rather than being associated with specific elements of the natural world, the major Greek gods had originally been conceived as having universal powers and that each was worshipped by a different Greek tribe. This theory had its roots in the work of K.O. Müller (1797–1840) and was further developed by H.D. Müller (1819–93) and E. Curtius (1814–96). The theory of universal gods provided the most important alternative to the physical interpretation of the Greek gods and the rivalry between them was a dominant theme in German scholarship from the 1820s to the 1890s.Less
The second chapter examines the theory that rather than being associated with specific elements of the natural world, the major Greek gods had originally been conceived as having universal powers and that each was worshipped by a different Greek tribe. This theory had its roots in the work of K.O. Müller (1797–1840) and was further developed by H.D. Müller (1819–93) and E. Curtius (1814–96). The theory of universal gods provided the most important alternative to the physical interpretation of the Greek gods and the rivalry between them was a dominant theme in German scholarship from the 1820s to the 1890s.
Conan Fischer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- February 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199676293
- eISBN:
- 9780191755613
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676293.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Economic History
Franco-German relations developed across a set of frameworks, which ranged from diplomacy to the economy and cultural linkages. This chapter notes the development of influential economic pressure ...
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Franco-German relations developed across a set of frameworks, which ranged from diplomacy to the economy and cultural linkages. This chapter notes the development of influential economic pressure groups and a range of other initiatives, before examining a sustained, publicly funded effort to strengthen rapprochement on the cultural plane (the Grautoff initiative). The chapter then focuses on the international diplomacy surrounding the successful renegotiation during 1929 and 1930 of the reparations schedule at The Hague (the Young Plan), and agreement on an early Allied military evacuation of the Rhineland. The Hague conferences saw a marked deterioration in Franco-British relations as against improved Franco-German relations. The shock of Gustav Stresemann’s untimely death in October 1929 was mitigated as French leaders warmed to his successor as Foreign Minister, Julius Curtius, and the pursuit of Franco-German rapprochement appeared a credible option.Less
Franco-German relations developed across a set of frameworks, which ranged from diplomacy to the economy and cultural linkages. This chapter notes the development of influential economic pressure groups and a range of other initiatives, before examining a sustained, publicly funded effort to strengthen rapprochement on the cultural plane (the Grautoff initiative). The chapter then focuses on the international diplomacy surrounding the successful renegotiation during 1929 and 1930 of the reparations schedule at The Hague (the Young Plan), and agreement on an early Allied military evacuation of the Rhineland. The Hague conferences saw a marked deterioration in Franco-British relations as against improved Franco-German relations. The shock of Gustav Stresemann’s untimely death in October 1929 was mitigated as French leaders warmed to his successor as Foreign Minister, Julius Curtius, and the pursuit of Franco-German rapprochement appeared a credible option.
