Multiple antiquities, multiple modernities : ancient histories in nineteenth century European cultures /
"Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is i...
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Frankfurt ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Philhellenism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism / Glenn W. Most
- We and the Greeks / François Hartog
- Classical philology and the making of modernity in Germany / Pierre Judet de La Combe
- Philology in Germany: textual or cultural scholarship? / Michael Werner
- Classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Hungary: a case study in histoire croiseé
- Zsigmond Ritoók
- Reshaping the "classical tradition" to question the European political order: PolIsh case studies / Jerzy Axer
- From Historia Magistra Vitae to history as empirical experimentation of progress / Chryssanthi Avlami
- National antiquities in East-Central Europe: three variations on a leading theme / Mónika Baár
- The myth of Scythian origin and the cult of Attila in the nineteenth century / Gábor Klaniczay
- Differentiation in entanglement: debates on antiquity, ethnogenesis and identity in nineteenth-century Bulgaria / Diana Mishkova
- Relocating Ithaca: alternative antiquities in modern Bulgarian political discourse / Balázs Trencsényi
- The "antiquitates" of the Greco-Roman world and their effect on antiquarian thought in Europe from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century / Alain Schnapp
- Contested origins: French and German views of a shared archaeological heritage in Lorraine / Bonnie Effros
- From ruins to heritage: the past perfect and the idealized antiquity in North Africa / Nabila Oulebsir
- A periphery on the periphery of the ancient world: the discovery of Nubia in the nineteenth century / László Török
- Disciplinary identity and autonomy at the beginnings of archaeology in Romania / Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu
- Entangled histories in South-East Europe: memory and archaeology / Boidar Slapak
- Quest for Homer(s) between philology, poetry, and ethnography: appropriations of antiquity in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkans / Svetlana Slapak
- Illyrian heroes, roman emperors and Christian martyrs: the construction of a Croatian archaeology between Rome and Vienna, 1815-1918 / Daniel Baric
- The Orient's obtuse antiquity / Aziz Al-Azmeh
- From republican to imperial: the survival and perception of antiquity in American thought / Tibor Frank
- Goethe and Homer / Hendrik Birus
- Karl Ottfried Müller and the "patriotic" study of religion / Éva Kocziszky
- Ex Ossibus Ultor: Virgil, Ezekiel and the transformation of the Polish national idea after 1795 / Maciej Janowski
- The myth of Sparta in Juliusz Slowacki and Cyprian Norwid's dramas: romantic reinterpretation of Greek heritage-- the Polish variant / Maria Kalinowska
- Classical philology in Hungary in the second half of the nineteenth century and the reception of classical Greek theater / György Karsai
- Classical rhetoric between public education and the education of the public in nineteenth-century Hungary / Ottó Gecser.