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Zusatztext Marked by the variety of contributions and the range of their reference ... Ambitious and Demanding. Informationen zum Autor Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University.Phiroze Vasunia is Reader in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. Klappentext A collection of essays exploring the relationship between classics and national cultures across many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms. Zusammenfassung Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Nicholas Allen: 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence 2: Richard H. Armstrong: Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna 3: Giovanna Ceserani: Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy 4: Joy Connolly: Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style 5: Emily Greenwood: Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men 6: Constanze Guthenke: Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930 7: Asen Kirin: Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition 8: Andrew Laird: The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination 9: Vassilis Lambropoulos: Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature 10: Fernanda Moore: How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland 11: Grant Parker: Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff 12: James Porter: Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews 13: Haun Saussy: Contestatory Classics in 1920s China 14: Susan Stephens: The New Alexandrian Library 15: Yasunari Takada: Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan 16: Phiroze Vasunia: Alexander Sikandar ...
