Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World

ISBN-13: 9780415099608 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str.

Mark Golden; Peter Toohey

Opis

This text discusses aspects of antiquity. It asks the reader in how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the 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.

Recenzje

'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 1998

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).