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Suzanne L. Marchand Down from Olympus (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Down from Olympus
- Title
- Down from Olympus
- Subtitle
- Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970
- ISBN-10
- 0691114781
- EAN
- 9780691114781
- ISBN
- 9780691114781
- Release Date
- 01/26/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- History
- Subject
- Archaeology, Ancient / General, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / Germany, History / Ancient & Classical
- Subject Area
- Art, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Down from Olympus : Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Since the publication of Eliza May Butler's Tyranny of Greece over Germany in 1935, the obsession of the German educated elite with the ancient Greeks has become an accepted, if severely underanalyzed, cliché. In Down from Olympus , Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist, normative aesthetics and an ascetic, scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German "neohumanists" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments, and by so doing, to revitalize education and the arts. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology, Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art was made the basis for new, state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar, she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism. This book discusses intellectual and institutional aspects of archaeology and philhellenism, giving extensive treatment to the history of prehistorical archaeology and German "orientalism." Marchand traces the history of the study, excavation, and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social, cultural, and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691114781
ISBN-13
9780691114781
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2464720
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Down from Olympus : Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Ancient / General, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / Germany, History / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Dd193.5.M37 2003
Reviews
A rich and welcome contribution to German cultural history. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in . . . the history of philhellenism and archaeology in Germany., "An enormously rich and stimulating book. . . . It is a masterly study of an important chapter of the classical Greek bearings on the modern world." --Craige Champion, Classical World, Impressive. . . . Marchand's work will fascinate historians, philosophers, literary theorists, and . . . Humanists. . . . It provides . . . the definitive study of the historical decline of German 'institutional philhellenism.' -- Josef Chytry, American Historical Review, "A rich and welcome contribution to German cultural history. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in . . . the history of philhellenism and archaeology in Germany." --Spencer Moore, American Anthropologist, "Impressive. . . . Marchands work will fascinate historians, philosophers, literary theorists, and . . . Humanists. . . . It provides . . . the definitive study of the historical decline of German institutional philhellenism."-- Josef Chytry, American Historical Review, "Impressive. . . . Marchand's work will fascinate historians, philosophers, literary theorists, and . . . Humanists. . . . It provides . . . the definitive study of the historical decline of German 'institutional philhellenism.'" --Josef Chytry, American Historical Review, An enormously rich and stimulating book. . . . It is a masterly study of an important chapter of the classical Greek bearings on the modern world. -- Craige Champion, Classical World, "A rich and welcome contribution to German cultural history. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in . . . the history of philhellenism and archaeology in Germany."-- Spencer Moore, American Anthropologist, "An enormously rich and stimulating book. . . . It is a masterly study of an important chapter of the classical Greek bearings on the modern world."-- Craige Champion, Classical World, "Superb. . . . a Sobering Book, One Marked by Its Scholarly Care and Narrative Brilliance."-- Choice, An enormously rich and stimulating book. . . . It is a masterly study of an important chapter of the classical Greek bearings on the modern world., A rich and welcome contribution to German cultural history. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in . . . the history of philhellenism and archaeology in Germany. -- Spencer Moore, American Anthropologist, "Impressive. . . . Marchand's work will fascinate historians, philosophers, literary theorists, and . . . Humanists. . . . It provides . . . the definitive study of the historical decline of German 'institutional philhellenism.'"-- Josef Chytry, American Historical Review, "Superb. . . . A sobering book, one marked by its scholarly care and narrative brilliance." -- Choice, Impressive. . . . Marchand's work will fascinate historians, philosophers, literary theorists, and . . . Humanists. . . . It provides . . . the definitive study of the historical decline of German 'institutional philhellenism.'
Table of Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv INTRODUCTION Xvii ONE The Making of a Cultural Obsession 3 TWO From Ideals to Institutions 36 THREE The Vicissitudes of Grand-Scale Archaeology 75 FOUR Trouble in Olympus 116 FIVE Excavating the Barbarian 152 SIX The Peculiarities of German Orientalism 188 SEVEN Kultur and the World War 228 EIGHT The Persistence of the Old Regime 263 NINE The Third Humanism and the Return of Romantic Aesthetics 302 TEN The Decline of Philhellenism, 1933-1970 341 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 377 INDEX 391
Copyright Date
1996
Dewey Decimal
938/.0072/043
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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