Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Daniel Orrellsexamines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how...
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Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century by Orrells, Daniel

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

BD$237.85

Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

BD$237.85
Author: Daniel Orrells
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Daniel Orrellsexamines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts.

With the explosion of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, eighteenth-century intellectuals, antiquarians and artists such as Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Comte de Caylus, James Stuart, Julien-David Leroy, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Pierre-Fran?ois Hugues d'Hancarville all became interested in how printed engravings of ancient art and archaeology could visualize a historical narrative. These figures theorized the relationship between ancient text and ancient material and visual culture - theorizations which would pave the way to foundational questions at the heart of the discipline of classical studies and neoclassical aesthetics.

Author: Daniel Orrells
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781350407763

About the Author
Daniel Orrells is Professor of Classics at King's College London, UK. He is author of Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2015) and Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011), and is co-editor of The Mudimbe Reader (2016) and African Athena: New Agendas (2011).

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