Antiquity in Print

Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Daniel Orrells (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40777-0 (ISBN)

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Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts.

With the explosion of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, eighteenth-century intellectuals, antiquarians and artists such as Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Comte de Caylus, James Stuart, Julien-David Leroy, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville all became interested in how printed engravings of ancient art and archaeology could visualize a historical narrative. These figures theorized the relationship between ancient text and ancient material and visual culture - theorizations which would pave the way to foundational questions at the heart of the discipline of classical studies and neoclassical aesthetics.

Daniel Orrells is Professor of Classics at King’s College London, UK. He is author of Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2015) and Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011), and is co-editor of The Mudimbe Reader (2016) and African Athena: New Agendas (2011).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality

Chapter 1: Achilles' Shield and Vico's Frontispiece
Chapter 2: Visualising Philhellenism
Chapter 3: Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture

Epilogue: From Lessing to Kauffmann: Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Classics
Zusatzinfo	89 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-40777-1 / 1350407771
ISBN-13	978-1-350-40777-0 / 9781350407770
Zustand	Neuware