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Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

by Daniel Orrells
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350407763
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: GBP 75.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical, Modern / 18th Century, and Ancient & Classical

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.

Goldschmidt, Nora: - Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, UK.

Góráin, Fiachra Mac: - Fiachra Mac Góráin is Associate Professor of Classics at University College London, UK.

Martindale, Charles: - Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin in the University of Bristol, UK. His books include Redeeming the Text (2008) and Latin Literature and the Judgement of Taste (2004) and he is, with David Hopkins, general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (2012-).

Orrells, Daniel: - 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).

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