Antiquity in Print
Subtitle: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century
By: Daniel Orrells
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New Directions in Classics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781350407800; 9781350407763; 9781350407770; 9781350407787; 9781350407794
Subjects: Classical antiquities; Historiography; Classical texts; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Prints & printmaking
Description: <b>Daniel Orrells<i> </i>examines 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.</b> 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-François 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality  Chapter 1: Achilles' Shield and Vico's Frontispiece Chapter 2: Visualising Philhellenism Chapter 3: Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture  Epilogue: From Lessing to Kauffmann: Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece  Notes  Bibliography Index