Timothy Saunders, Charles Martindale, Ralph Pite, and Mathilde Skoie (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199588541
- eISBN:
- 9780191741845
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588541.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the ...
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This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and love — and assesses how these themes and motifs circulate between Roman antiquity and Romanticism. Part Two contains case-studies of specific engagements between those who were alive in the so-called Romantic Period and specific aspects of Roman antiquity. Part Three then evaluates the reception of Romanticism in authors, writings, operas, and films that appeared after, and in full consciousness of, the formulation of this concept; it considers how these receptions are in turn shaped by and shaping the simultaneous reception of the ancient Romans. By highlighting in this way the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and that Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, this book initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but a new understanding of each of them individually.Less
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and love — and assesses how these themes and motifs circulate between Roman antiquity and Romanticism. Part Two contains case-studies of specific engagements between those who were alive in the so-called Romantic Period and specific aspects of Roman antiquity. Part Three then evaluates the reception of Romanticism in authors, writings, operas, and films that appeared after, and in full consciousness of, the formulation of this concept; it considers how these receptions are in turn shaped by and shaping the simultaneous reception of the ancient Romans. By highlighting in this way the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and that Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, this book initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but a new understanding of each of them individually.
Krista De Jonge
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526117045
- eISBN:
- 9781526141910
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526117045.003.0012
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This chapter examines Peter Ernst von Mansfeld’s appropriation of local antiquities in his suburban residence and garden at Clausen, in Luxemburg. Mansfield, who would become the longest-serving ...
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This chapter examines Peter Ernst von Mansfeld’s appropriation of local antiquities in his suburban residence and garden at Clausen, in Luxemburg. Mansfield, who would become the longest-serving governor of Luxemburg, built up an impressive collection of Gallo-Roman antiquities from Trier, Arlon and Metz. Mansfield constructed this complex, called La Fontaine, between 1563 and 1590 as a properly ‘antique’ setting, with a vaulted grotto and cryptoporticus. In this essays Mansfield’s antiquarian efforts are considered in the context of the broader search by Netherlandish humanists for archaeological evidence confirming their Roman roots. The Southern Low Countries, called Belgica after Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de bello Gallico, were known to have been once part of Roman Gaul, and even while it was still under construction, La Fontaine was visited by knowledgeable travellers hunting for the material remains of Belgica Romana. Later on, early accounts of the history of Gallo-Roman Luxemburg were greatly indebted to Mansfeld’s La Fontaine and its early chroniclers.Less
This chapter examines Peter Ernst von Mansfeld’s appropriation of local antiquities in his suburban residence and garden at Clausen, in Luxemburg. Mansfield, who would become the longest-serving governor of Luxemburg, built up an impressive collection of Gallo-Roman antiquities from Trier, Arlon and Metz. Mansfield constructed this complex, called La Fontaine, between 1563 and 1590 as a properly ‘antique’ setting, with a vaulted grotto and cryptoporticus. In this essays Mansfield’s antiquarian efforts are considered in the context of the broader search by Netherlandish humanists for archaeological evidence confirming their Roman roots. The Southern Low Countries, called Belgica after Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de bello Gallico, were known to have been once part of Roman Gaul, and even while it was still under construction, La Fontaine was visited by knowledgeable travellers hunting for the material remains of Belgica Romana. Later on, early accounts of the history of Gallo-Roman Luxemburg were greatly indebted to Mansfeld’s La Fontaine and its early chroniclers.
Stefano Evangelista
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199588541
- eISBN:
- 9780191741845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588541.003.0016
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
With his novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), Walter Pater moved the focus of his interest from Greek to Roman antiquity. In his reflections on historiography, his ideal of the hero as a man of feeling ...
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With his novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), Walter Pater moved the focus of his interest from Greek to Roman antiquity. In his reflections on historiography, his ideal of the hero as a man of feeling and his exploration of the sentimental register, Pater made use of an extensive range of English and European Romantic sources, from Wordsworth to Goethe, Rousseau, and Madame de Staël. His portrayal of Imperial Rome was likewise based on early nineteenth-century representations of the city as, at the same time, museum and cosmopolitan stage. By means of these intertextualities, the historical novel in Pater's hands becomes a vehicle for the study of the relationship between Romanticism and Classicism, providing us at the same time with an important document of the legacy of Romanticism in late nineteenth-century England.Less
With his novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), Walter Pater moved the focus of his interest from Greek to Roman antiquity. In his reflections on historiography, his ideal of the hero as a man of feeling and his exploration of the sentimental register, Pater made use of an extensive range of English and European Romantic sources, from Wordsworth to Goethe, Rousseau, and Madame de Staël. His portrayal of Imperial Rome was likewise based on early nineteenth-century representations of the city as, at the same time, museum and cosmopolitan stage. By means of these intertextualities, the historical novel in Pater's hands becomes a vehicle for the study of the relationship between Romanticism and Classicism, providing us at the same time with an important document of the legacy of Romanticism in late nineteenth-century England.
Bonnie Effros
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501720079
- eISBN:
- 9781501720086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501720079.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter explores how the French discovery of Roman ruins in Algeria was used to legitimate its annexation of the territory. Intellectuals and politicians argued that the Ottoman Empire was ...
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This chapter explores how the French discovery of Roman ruins in Algeria was used to legitimate its annexation of the territory. Intellectuals and politicians argued that the Ottoman Empire was illegitimate; France was the true heir of the shared Latinate civilization created by the Roman Empire. The new French Empire would simply reunite the Mediterranean world. These efforts were, however, thwarted by both human and material actors. Parisian museum administrators thought that the North African finds were of low quality and not of much interest. French colonists argued, by contrast, that the Roman artifacts should stay in Algeria, to help build a French imperial identity. And the things themselves resisted; they broke when soldiers tried to extract them and their weight sank the ships used to transport them. The chapter then suggests that nineteenth-century campaigns to steal, export, and re-signify art and antiquities sometimes fell short of their ambitions.Less
This chapter explores how the French discovery of Roman ruins in Algeria was used to legitimate its annexation of the territory. Intellectuals and politicians argued that the Ottoman Empire was illegitimate; France was the true heir of the shared Latinate civilization created by the Roman Empire. The new French Empire would simply reunite the Mediterranean world. These efforts were, however, thwarted by both human and material actors. Parisian museum administrators thought that the North African finds were of low quality and not of much interest. French colonists argued, by contrast, that the Roman artifacts should stay in Algeria, to help build a French imperial identity. And the things themselves resisted; they broke when soldiers tried to extract them and their weight sank the ships used to transport them. The chapter then suggests that nineteenth-century campaigns to steal, export, and re-signify art and antiquities sometimes fell short of their ambitions.
Stephen G. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520258334
- eISBN:
- 9780520943599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520258334.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
On November 12, 1902, eighty-eight cases of antiquities and plaster casts of ancient sculpture arrived in San Francisco. Case 186, contained an inscribed portrait herm of Plato, which is now in the ...
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On November 12, 1902, eighty-eight cases of antiquities and plaster casts of ancient sculpture arrived in San Francisco. Case 186, contained an inscribed portrait herm of Plato, which is now in the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) on the Berkeley campus. Mrs. Hearst had employed Alfred Emerson, a classical scholar and friend of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, to acquire Greek and Roman antiquities in Rome as part of her plan for a museum that would bring together characteristic artifacts of ancient cultures for the edification of the citizens of northern California. The Plato hermwas purchased by Emerson from the Fratelli Iandolo, a well-known firm of antiquities dealers in Rome. The inventory catalogue entry for the piece includes this statement, handwritten at an unknown time: “Pertinence of head is not certain.”. This portrait herm has been left in total obscurity for more than a century.Less
On November 12, 1902, eighty-eight cases of antiquities and plaster casts of ancient sculpture arrived in San Francisco. Case 186, contained an inscribed portrait herm of Plato, which is now in the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) on the Berkeley campus. Mrs. Hearst had employed Alfred Emerson, a classical scholar and friend of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, to acquire Greek and Roman antiquities in Rome as part of her plan for a museum that would bring together characteristic artifacts of ancient cultures for the edification of the citizens of northern California. The Plato hermwas purchased by Emerson from the Fratelli Iandolo, a well-known firm of antiquities dealers in Rome. The inventory catalogue entry for the piece includes this statement, handwritten at an unknown time: “Pertinence of head is not certain.”. This portrait herm has been left in total obscurity for more than a century.
Paul U. Unschuld
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520257658
- eISBN:
- 9780520944701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257658.003.0042
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
Arabian authors incorporated the knowledge of Greco-Roman antiquity, organized it, and added a few of their own thoughts. The view of the organism they found in new medicine had no counterpart in ...
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Arabian authors incorporated the knowledge of Greco-Roman antiquity, organized it, and added a few of their own thoughts. The view of the organism they found in new medicine had no counterpart in their living environment. This medicine was so foreign to the thinking and worldview of the Muslims that the guardians of the faith soon advised abandoning it and returning to the nonmedical therapeutics oriented toward the sayings of the prophet. It was individual scholars who felt attracted by the variety and the depth of thought in the innumerable writings of ancient authors. But they still remained mere individual scholars, who would never be able to convince their native culture, especially those scholars who represented the original, religious Muslim worldview of this culture. The clinical practice was simply too primitive compared to the procedures they already knew themselves. Arabs again disappeared from the stage of European medicine.Less
Arabian authors incorporated the knowledge of Greco-Roman antiquity, organized it, and added a few of their own thoughts. The view of the organism they found in new medicine had no counterpart in their living environment. This medicine was so foreign to the thinking and worldview of the Muslims that the guardians of the faith soon advised abandoning it and returning to the nonmedical therapeutics oriented toward the sayings of the prophet. It was individual scholars who felt attracted by the variety and the depth of thought in the innumerable writings of ancient authors. But they still remained mere individual scholars, who would never be able to convince their native culture, especially those scholars who represented the original, religious Muslim worldview of this culture. The clinical practice was simply too primitive compared to the procedures they already knew themselves. Arabs again disappeared from the stage of European medicine.
Francis Oakley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300176339
- eISBN:
- 9780300183504
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300176339.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter asserts the significance of the attainment of a renewed familiarity with the intellectual legacy of Greek, Roman, and Christian antiquity to the vigorous development of political ...
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This chapter asserts the significance of the attainment of a renewed familiarity with the intellectual legacy of Greek, Roman, and Christian antiquity to the vigorous development of political thinking that took place during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Similarly important was the intellectual stance that medieval thinkers themselves adopted when they sought to come to terms with that legacy. In the study of the political thinking of the era, one must come to terms with both factors and, accordingly, take them into consideration. Although both factors are of equal import, the following sections of the chapter first discuss the second factor—which is the one easily underestimated or often overlooked.Less
This chapter asserts the significance of the attainment of a renewed familiarity with the intellectual legacy of Greek, Roman, and Christian antiquity to the vigorous development of political thinking that took place during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Similarly important was the intellectual stance that medieval thinkers themselves adopted when they sought to come to terms with that legacy. In the study of the political thinking of the era, one must come to terms with both factors and, accordingly, take them into consideration. Although both factors are of equal import, the following sections of the chapter first discuss the second factor—which is the one easily underestimated or often overlooked.
M. J. De Waal
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198267782
- eISBN:
- 9780191683374
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267782.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Legal History
This chapter focuses on servitudes. In many civilian systems, servitudes include both praedial and personal servitudes. In Scotland the position is different. Although older authorities maintain the ...
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This chapter focuses on servitudes. In many civilian systems, servitudes include both praedial and personal servitudes. In Scotland the position is different. Although older authorities maintain the distinction, Bell had already stated that ‘the only servitudes in Scotland are praedial’. It admits of no doubt that this is also the modern view, and the traditional personal servitude of liferent are not considered in this chapter. The word ‘servitude’ can be traced back to the Latin term servitus. Servitus is derived from the verb servire, which means ‘to be of service’. This, very literally, was the meaning attached to the legal concept of a servitude in the Roman law of antiquity. The lawyers of this early age did not feel the need, nor indeed did they possess the ability, to define the concept in formal jurisprudential terms.Less
This chapter focuses on servitudes. In many civilian systems, servitudes include both praedial and personal servitudes. In Scotland the position is different. Although older authorities maintain the distinction, Bell had already stated that ‘the only servitudes in Scotland are praedial’. It admits of no doubt that this is also the modern view, and the traditional personal servitude of liferent are not considered in this chapter. The word ‘servitude’ can be traced back to the Latin term servitus. Servitus is derived from the verb servire, which means ‘to be of service’. This, very literally, was the meaning attached to the legal concept of a servitude in the Roman law of antiquity. The lawyers of this early age did not feel the need, nor indeed did they possess the ability, to define the concept in formal jurisprudential terms.
Judith P. Hallett
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199673926
- eISBN:
- 9780191760570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673926.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This discussion considers how classicists ‘expand their circle’ and connect their research in different areas of classical reception with the work of scholars in other disciplines who are not ...
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This discussion considers how classicists ‘expand their circle’ and connect their research in different areas of classical reception with the work of scholars in other disciplines who are not necessarily trained in the field of classics, or even sympathetic to classical reception. The communications strategies suggested draw on personal research experience on the influential and yet insufficiently valued role played by American women, from the eighteenth century onward, not only in the academic study of Greek, Latin, and Greco-Roman antiquity but also in the fostering of ‘classicism’, efforts that promoted the appreciation of the classical past among a wider public. Case studies focus on recent biographical projects on two American female educators: M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1922, and her student Edith Hamilton, headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore founded by Thomas from 1896 to 1922, and later a best-selling author of popular books about the classical world.Less
This discussion considers how classicists ‘expand their circle’ and connect their research in different areas of classical reception with the work of scholars in other disciplines who are not necessarily trained in the field of classics, or even sympathetic to classical reception. The communications strategies suggested draw on personal research experience on the influential and yet insufficiently valued role played by American women, from the eighteenth century onward, not only in the academic study of Greek, Latin, and Greco-Roman antiquity but also in the fostering of ‘classicism’, efforts that promoted the appreciation of the classical past among a wider public. Case studies focus on recent biographical projects on two American female educators: M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1922, and her student Edith Hamilton, headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore founded by Thomas from 1896 to 1922, and later a best-selling author of popular books about the classical world.
THOMAS K. HUBBARD
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520223813
- eISBN:
- 9780520936508
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520223813.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter surveys pagan texts of the second, third, and early fourth centuries C.E. A speech by Dio of Prusa contrasts the pure and simple life of Euboean hunters to the moral corruption of city ...
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This chapter surveys pagan texts of the second, third, and early fourth centuries C.E. A speech by Dio of Prusa contrasts the pure and simple life of Euboean hunters to the moral corruption of city life. A quasi-philosophical dialogue by Plutarch depicts his grown son Autobulus telling a friend about a debate on love at which Plutarch himself was present. Polemon's epitome of his treatise on physiognomy has been preserved through the Arabic tradition. Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans and True History, and Apuleius' Apology and Metamorphoses are described. Leucippe and Clitophon features a more “sophistic” style and greater engagement with intellectual issues than that which is seen in Xenophon's novel. Longus is probably from the island of Lesbos, where his novel is set. Artemidorus of Ephesus collected for the instruction of his son a book of dreams and their interpretation. Mathesis showed signs of Stoic influence.Less
This chapter surveys pagan texts of the second, third, and early fourth centuries C.E. A speech by Dio of Prusa contrasts the pure and simple life of Euboean hunters to the moral corruption of city life. A quasi-philosophical dialogue by Plutarch depicts his grown son Autobulus telling a friend about a debate on love at which Plutarch himself was present. Polemon's epitome of his treatise on physiognomy has been preserved through the Arabic tradition. Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans and True History, and Apuleius' Apology and Metamorphoses are described. Leucippe and Clitophon features a more “sophistic” style and greater engagement with intellectual issues than that which is seen in Xenophon's novel. Longus is probably from the island of Lesbos, where his novel is set. Artemidorus of Ephesus collected for the instruction of his son a book of dreams and their interpretation. Mathesis showed signs of Stoic influence.
Craig A. Gibson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229563
- eISBN:
- 9780520927308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229563.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This introductory chapter discusses Demosthenes, who was one of the most influential authors of Greek and Roman antiquity. It reveals that Demosthenes was one of the orators included in the canon of ...
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This introductory chapter discusses Demosthenes, who was one of the most influential authors of Greek and Roman antiquity. It reveals that Demosthenes was one of the orators included in the canon of ten Attic orators, which was a list of recommended authors that may have reached its final form in the second century C.E. The discussion then identifies the challenges that face postclassical readers of Demosthenes and studies the ancient commentaries on Demosthenes. The three working hypotheses that are used in the book are then enumerated.Less
This introductory chapter discusses Demosthenes, who was one of the most influential authors of Greek and Roman antiquity. It reveals that Demosthenes was one of the orators included in the canon of ten Attic orators, which was a list of recommended authors that may have reached its final form in the second century C.E. The discussion then identifies the challenges that face postclassical readers of Demosthenes and studies the ancient commentaries on Demosthenes. The three working hypotheses that are used in the book are then enumerated.
Kathy Eden
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300087574
- eISBN:
- 9780300133646
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300087574.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
Erasmus's Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a ...
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Erasmus's Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship. This book focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favorite philosophers—Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ—and the early history of private property that gradually transformed European attitudes concerning the right to copy. In the process it accounts for the peculiar shape of Erasmus's collection of more than 3,000 proverbs and provides readings of such ancient philosophical and religious thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Iamblichus, Tertullian, Basil, Jerome, and Augustine.Less
Erasmus's Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship. This book focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favorite philosophers—Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ—and the early history of private property that gradually transformed European attitudes concerning the right to copy. In the process it accounts for the peculiar shape of Erasmus's collection of more than 3,000 proverbs and provides readings of such ancient philosophical and religious thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Iamblichus, Tertullian, Basil, Jerome, and Augustine.
Johann Chapoutot
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520275720
- eISBN:
- 9780520966154
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520275720.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This concluding chapter summarizes the previous chapters in order to reconstruct the Nazi myth—a myth of death that was nevertheless intended to impregnate others, to awaken the future race and urge ...
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This concluding chapter summarizes the previous chapters in order to reconstruct the Nazi myth—a myth of death that was nevertheless intended to impregnate others, to awaken the future race and urge new generations of Aryans to rise up once more, out of sacred respect for their ancestors. From the beginning, the leaders of the Third Reich abandoned the realm of history to live in the realm of myth, where everything was sign or symbol and where all chance was perceived as being of necessity. Hitler and his associates responsible for the regime were haunted by myths, obsessed with imitating the acts of their predecessors, possessed by visions of reliving the great ancient epics. From here, the chapter turns to the historian's role to snuff out the myth, and thus to overturn the Nazis' manipulation of time and history.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the previous chapters in order to reconstruct the Nazi myth—a myth of death that was nevertheless intended to impregnate others, to awaken the future race and urge new generations of Aryans to rise up once more, out of sacred respect for their ancestors. From the beginning, the leaders of the Third Reich abandoned the realm of history to live in the realm of myth, where everything was sign or symbol and where all chance was perceived as being of necessity. Hitler and his associates responsible for the regime were haunted by myths, obsessed with imitating the acts of their predecessors, possessed by visions of reliving the great ancient epics. From here, the chapter turns to the historian's role to snuff out the myth, and thus to overturn the Nazis' manipulation of time and history.
Craig Gibson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229563
- eISBN:
- 9780520927308
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229563.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly ...
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Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, this book tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand Demosthenes' writings. This book collects, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes. Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, this book gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century B.C. to the fifth century and beyond. The book surveys the physical form of the commentaries, traces the history of how they were passed down, and explains their sources, interests, and readership. It also includes a complete collection of Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on the commentaries.Less
Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, this book tells the story of how one group of ancient scholars helped their readers understand Demosthenes' writings. This book collects, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes. Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, this book gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century B.C. to the fifth century and beyond. The book surveys the physical form of the commentaries, traces the history of how they were passed down, and explains their sources, interests, and readership. It also includes a complete collection of Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on the commentaries.
Tobias Gregory
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226307558
- eISBN:
- 9780226307565
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307565.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of ...
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Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil—indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems—yet poets of the Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians could not be imitated too closely. The divine action of their classical models had to be transformed to accord with contemporary tastes and Christian belief. This book offers a comparative study of poetic approaches to the problem of epic divine action. Through readings of Petrarch, Vida, Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton the author describes the narrative and ideological consequences of the epic's turn from pagan to Christian. Drawing on scholarship in several disciplines—religious studies, classics, history, and philosophy, as well as literature—the book sheds light on two subjects of enduring importance in Renaissance studies: the precarious balance between classical literary models and Christian religious norms; and the role of religion in drawing lines between allies and others.Less
Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil—indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems—yet poets of the Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians could not be imitated too closely. The divine action of their classical models had to be transformed to accord with contemporary tastes and Christian belief. This book offers a comparative study of poetic approaches to the problem of epic divine action. Through readings of Petrarch, Vida, Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton the author describes the narrative and ideological consequences of the epic's turn from pagan to Christian. Drawing on scholarship in several disciplines—religious studies, classics, history, and philosophy, as well as literature—the book sheds light on two subjects of enduring importance in Renaissance studies: the precarious balance between classical literary models and Christian religious norms; and the role of religion in drawing lines between allies and others.
