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Aestheticism
Ancient art
Ancient Greece
Archaeology
Art history
Asceticism
Author_Suzanne L. Marchand
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Classical antiquity
Classical archaeology
Classical Philology (journal)
Classicism
Classics
Credential
Criticism
Cultural history
Culture of Greece
Democratization
Eduard Meyer
Ephesus
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Ernst Curtius
Erudition
Exclusion
Freiherr
Germanophile
Germans
Glyptothek
Greek art
Hegemony
Hellenistic period
Historicism
Humanism
Lebensphilosophie
Lecture
Lessing
Literature
Mommsen
Museum
Neoclassicism
Neohumanism
Of Education
Ottoman Empire
Pan-Germanism
Patriotism
Philhellenism
Philology
Philosopher
Philosophy
Positivism
Prehistory
Professionalization
Protestantism
Prussia
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Publication
Rhetoric
Romanticism
Rudolf Virchow
Subsidy
The Other Hand
Theodor Mommsen
Utilitarianism
Weltpolitik
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wissenschaft
Work of art
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691114781
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, cliche. 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.
Suzanne L. Marchand is Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author of numerous essays on the history of anthropology, archaeology, and classical scholarship in Germany and Austria and is the coauthor of the world history textbook "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart" (W. W. Norton).
