Başlık:
Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world
Yazar:
Golden, Mark, 1948-
ISBN:
9780415099592
9780415099608
Yayım Bilgisi:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Fiziksel Tanım:
viii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part I Antiquity and the Enlightenment: inventing the present. Introduction / Mark Golden and Peter Tooley. Towards a history of body history / Amy Richun. Painters and pederasts: ancient art, sexuality, and social history / Martin Kilmer. Trimalchio₂s constipation: periodization, madness, eros, and time / Peter Tooley. Philosophy, friendship, and cultural history / David Konstan. Continuity and change in Roman social history: retrieving ₁family feeling(s)' from Roman law and literature / Suzanne Dixon -- Part II Reconstructing the past: the practice of periodization. Introduction / Mark Golden and Peter Tooley. Periodization and the heroes: inventing a dark age / Ian Morris. Reconstructing change: ideology and the Eleusinian mysteries / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. The problem of periodization: the case of the Peloponnesian War / Barry S. Strauss. Change or continuity?: children and childhood in Hellenistic historiography / Mark Golden. Did Roman women have an empire? / Phyllis Culham.
Abstract:
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.
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