Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970

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Princeton University Press, 26 Ιαν 2003 - 400 σελίδες

Since the publication of Eliza May Butler's Tyranny of Greece over Germany in 1935, the obsession of the German educated elite with the ancient Greeks has become an accepted, if severely underanalyzed, cliché. In Down from Olympus, Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist, normative aesthetics and an ascetic, scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German "neohumanists" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments, and by so doing, to revitalize education and the arts. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology, Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art was made the basis for new, state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar, she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism.

This book discusses intellectual and institutional aspects of archaeology and philhellenism, giving extensive treatment to the history of prehistorical archaeology and German "orientalism." Marchand traces the history of the study, excavation, and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social, cultural, and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries.

 

Περιεχόμενα

The Making of a Cultural Obsession
3
From Ideals to Institutions
36
The Vicissitudes of GrandScale Archaeology
75
Trouble in Olympus
116
Excavating the Barbarian
152
The Peculiarities of German Orientalism
188
Kultur and the World War
228
The Persistence of the Old Regime
263
The Third Humanism and the Return of Romantic Aesthetics
302
The Decline of Philhellenism 19331970
341
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
377
INDEX
391
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Suzanne L. Marchand is Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author of numerous essays on the history of anthropology, archaeology, and classical scholarship in Germany and Austria and is the coauthor of the world history textbook Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (W. W. Norton).

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