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Down from Olympus

Down from Olympus

Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany (1750-1970)

1996

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Livre de Suzanne Marchand · 1996 (Royaume-Uni)

Genres : Essai, Histoire, Version originale
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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... Voir plus