The uses and abuses of antiquity

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The uses and abuses of antiquity

Michael Biddiss and Maria Wyke (eds)

P. Lang, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This multi-disciplinary volume brings together essays illustrating the diversity of forms in which the legacy of Antiquity has been used, and abused, by the Modern West. Here classicists and non-classicists combine to show how historiography, anthropology, philosophy, political thought, archaeology, poetry, drama, the novel, music, architecture, sculpture, painting, photography and film can be rewardingly juxtaposed as sites rich in the appropriation of Greco-Roman culture. The book has a chronological span running from the 17th to the late-20th century, and it ranges geographically from Britain to Europe and the USA. The authors remind us that it is often not the past itself so much as constructed images thereof which do most to mould our cultural consciousness. The collection discloses the pluralism and flexibility of Antiquity as an important modern symbolic source, and the variety of socio-cultural circumstances which have oriented us towards it. At many points these essays also analyze signs of a certain desire for release from a tradition viewed as troublesome and constraining. Yet they also tend to confirm that, whenever we seek to escape classical culture, we are still likely to be held within its trammels - that, even when we think that we have thrown it off, we seem fated to remain within its protean thrall.

目次

  • Introduction - using and abusing Antiquity, Maria Wyke and Michael Biddiss
  • "this frantic woman" - Boadicea and English neo-classical embarassment, Carolyn D. Williams
  • 1845 and all that -singing Greek tragedy on the London stage, Edith Hall
  • Jews and Greeks - the invention and exploitation of polarities in the 19th century, Tessa Rajak
  • nationalism and the antique in 19th-century English and French art, Athena S. Leoussi
  • Walter Pater's unsettling of the Apollonian ideal, Alex Potts
  • the invention of modern Olympic tradition, Michael Biddiss
  • the "romanitas" of the railway station, Janet DeLaine
  • sawdust Caesar - Mussolini, Julius Caesar and the drama of dictatorship, Maria Wyke
  • tourism, town planning and "romanitas" - Rimini's Roman heritage, Ray Laurence
  • mythoplasia and feminist intent - painting as sub/culture, Angela Dimitrakaki
  • the muses of the museum - Maud Sulter's retelling of the canon, Sue Malvern
  • perspectives on maternal authority -mother/daughter relationships in Sophocles' "Electra" and Beckett's "Footfalls", Anna McMullan and Lib Taylor
  • ancients and moderns - literature and the "Western canon", Patrick Parrinder.

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