Hellenomania

ISBN-13: 9780367593278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 332 str.

Katherine Harloe; Nicoletta Momigliano; Alexandre Farnoux

Opis

This volume presents a wide-ranging exploration of modern receptions of ancient Greek material culture in various modern cultural traditions and practices, such as literature, architecture and the fine and performing arts, and spans the seventeenth century to the present day. The volume is distinctive because it brings together a variety of arti

Spis treści

Introduction. Hellenomania: ancient and modern obsessions with the Greek past, Katherine Harloe and Nicoletta Momigliano 

Part 1: Hellenomanias from early modern to modernism 

1. Modern Stage Design and Greek Antiquity: Inigo Jones and his Greek Models, Fiona Macintosh 

2. Winckelmania: Hellenomania between ideal and experience, Katherine Harloe 

3. The British Literary Reception of Greek visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Richard Jenkyns 

Part 2: Ideal and real structures of Hellenomania 

4. The Ideal and the Real in British Hellenomania, 1751-1851, Frank Salmon 

5. Making everyone Greek: citizens, athletes, and ideals of nationhood in nineteenth-century Britain, France, and Germany, Athena Leoussi 

6. The Parthenon from the Greek Revival to Modern Architecture, Lena Lambrinou 

7. The Greek spirit: current architecture and sculpture in England, David Watkin 

Part 3: Hellenomania comes to life - Colour, Movement, and the Body 

8. From Galatea to Tanagra: Victorian translations of the controversial colours of Greek sculpture, Charlotte Ribeyrol 

9. 'Grecian dances' and the transformations of corporeality in the age of moving images, Pantelis Michelakis 

10. Fashioning a Modern Self in Greek Dress: the case of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, Artemis Leontis 

11. From Delphi, 1927, Eleni Sikelianos 

12. Aphroditê kinêmatographikê: Venus’ Varieties and Vicissitudes, Martin M. Winkler 

Part 4: Beyond Hellenomania? 

13. Las Incantadas of Salonica: searching for 'enchantment' in a city's exiled heritage, Esther Solomon and Styliana Galiniki 

13. Afterword: Hellenomanias past, present, and future, Eleana Yalouri

O autorze

Katherine Harloe is Associate Professor of Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading. Her research specialisms are the history of classical scholarship and the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity in European (especially German) culture from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. 　In addition to numerous articles, she is author of Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: history and aesthetics in the age of Altertumswissenschaft (2013) and co-editor of Thucydides and the Modern World: reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to today (2012).　 　　

Nicoletta Momigliano is Professor of Aegean Studies at the University of Bristol, specialising in Minoan archaeology and its reception. She has directed and co-directed several archaeological projects in Crete and Turkey, and has published many articles and book on Aegean subjects, including　Cretomania: Modern Desires for the Minoan Past (2017, co-edited with Alexandre Farnoux) and Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the Minoans　(2006, co-edited with Yannis Hamilakis).

Alexandre Farnoux is Professor of Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and, since 2011, has been Director of the French School in Athens. He is an expert on the archaeology of Delos and especially of Crete, where he has directed excavations at Malia and Dreros. He has published many works on Greek and Aegean topics, including Cnossos, l'archéologie d'un rêve (1993) and　Homère, le prince des poètes (2010).