Classics and National Cultures

by Stephens, Susan A.; Vasunia, Phiroze

• ISBN13: 9780199212989
• ISBN10: 0199212988
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past.

Author Biography

Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Phiroze Vasunia is Reader in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction

'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence

Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna

Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy

Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style

Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men

Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930

Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition

The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination

Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature

How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland

Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff

Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews

Contestatory Classics in 1920s China

The New Alexandrian Library

Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan

Alexander Sikandar

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