Daniel Orrells (UK Kingâ s College London)

Antiquity in Print

Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century
Herausgeber: Góráin, Fiachra Mac; Goldschmidt, Nora; Martindale, Charles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for visualising ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to and see Greece.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Classics
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781350407770
• ISBN-10: 1350407771
• Artikelnr.: 69077295

Autorenporträt

Daniel Orrells is Professor of Classics at King's College London, UK. He is author of Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2015) and Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011), and is co-editor of The Mudimbe Reader (2016) and African Athena: New Agendas (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality
Chapter 1: Achilles' Shield and Vico's Frontispiece
Chapter 2: Visualising Philhellenism
Chapter 3: Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture
Epilogue: From Lessing to Kauffmann: Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece
Notes
Bibliography
Index