Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
Published on 28. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-415-09960-8 (ISBN)
Description
Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the Enlightenment. Rather, the authors and contributors argue, there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography
Reviews / Votes
'This collection is undeniably academic, and while it is (self-confessedly) not the finished article, it asks questions central to classical studies, and raises issues which go far beyond standard syllabuses.' - Ancient, December 1998More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-09960-8 (9780415099608)
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Mark Golden | Peter Toohey
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
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Mark Golden | Peter Toohey
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
E-Book
03/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download
Mark Golden | Peter Toohey
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
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11/1996
Routledge
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Persons
Mark Golden is Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Heis the author of Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (1990). Peter Toohey is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient 1-listory at theUniversity of New England, New South Wales. He is the author of ReadingEpic (1992) and Epic Lessons (1996).
Content
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- Mark Golden and Peter Toohey -- Part I Antiquity and the Enlightenment: Inventing the present -- INTRODUCTION/Mark Golden and Peter Toohey -- I TOWARDS A HISTORY OF BO[)Y HISTORY/Amy Richlin -- 2 PAINTERS AND PEDERASTS: ANCIENT ART, SEXUAI.ITY, AND SOCIAL HISTORY/Martin Kilmer -- 3 TRIMALCHIO'S CONSTIPATION: PERIODIZING MADNESS, EROS, AND TIME/Peter Tuohey -- 4 PHILOSOPHY, FRIENDSHIP, AND CULTURAL HISTORY/David Konstan -- 5 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN ROMAN SOCIAL HISTORY: RETRIEVING FAMILY FEELING(S)' FROM ROMAN LAW AND LITERATURE/Suzanne Dixon -- Part II Reconstructing the past: The practice of periodization -- INTRODUCTION/Mark Golden and Peter Toohey -- 6 PERIODIZATION AND TI IE HEROES: INVENTING ADARKAGE/Jan Morris -- 7 RECONSTRUCTING CHANGE: IDEOLOGY AND TIlE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES/Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood -- 8 THE PROBLEM OF PERIODIZATION: THE CASE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR/Barry S. Strauss -- 9 CHANGE OR CONTINUITY? CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN 1-IELLENISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY/Mark Golden -- 10 DID ROMAN WOMEN HAVE AN EMPIRE?/Phyllis Culham -- References -- Index.