Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world
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Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world
Routledge, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 205-233
Includes Index
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: hb ISBN 9780415099592
Description
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Antiquity and the Enlightenment: Inventing the Present 1. Towards a History of Body History 2. Painters and Pederasts: Ancient Art, Sexuality, and Social History 3. Trimalchio's Constipation: Periodizing Madness, Eros, and Time 4. Philosophy, Friendship, and Cultural Studies 5. Continuity and Change in Roman Social History: Retrieving 'Family Feeling(s)' from Roman Law and Literature Part 2: Reconstructing the Past: The Practice of Periodization 6. Periodization and the Heroes: or Inventing a Dark Age 7. Reconstructing Change: Ideology and Ritual 8. The Problem of Periodization: the Case of the Peloponnesian War 9. Change or Continuity? Children and Childhood in Hellenistic Historiography 10. Did Women have an Empire?
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Description
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
Table of Contents
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.
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