The materiality of classical studies

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Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 64-74

  Porter, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 60949287771     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1353464032000142372     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. See John Boardman, The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-created their Mythical Past (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)
2. Philippe Ariès, Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present, trans. Patricia M. Ranum (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations, trans. R.J. Hollingdale. Introduction by J.P. Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 60; tr. modified
4. Ian Morris, 'Archaeologies of Greece', in Ian Morris, Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies, 8-47 (1994), p. 24
5. Ian Morris, 'Archaeologies of Greece', p.14; cf. p.9. Curiously, however, he writes that 'in this chapter I favour externalist and noncognitive forces' in his account of the formation of the disciplinary divisions
6. Mary Beard, The Parthenon (London: Profile, 2002)
7. Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
8. Simon Goldhill, Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
9. Christopher Stray, Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
10. Ian Morris, Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000)
11. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, The Powers of Philology: Dynamics of Textual Scholarship (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003)
12. and the Aporemata series edited by Glenn W. Most (1997-2002)
13. James I. Porter, 'Ideals and Ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the Second Sophistic', in Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, ed. Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, and Jas Elsner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
14. Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London: Verso, 1999)
15. Cf. Freud, 'Fetishism' (1927) in Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. James Strachey, Anna Freud, and Angela Richards (London: Hogarth, 1953-74), 21:152-59, esp. p.154
16. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972), p.158
17. Winckelmann in Helmut Pfotenhauer et al, eds., Frühklassizismus, Position und Opposition: Winckelman, Mengs, Heinse (Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1995), p.149 and 151
18. Winckelmann, Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums, 364-65, cf. 346
19. See, e.g. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Werke in fünf Bänden, ed. Andreas Flitner and Klaus Giel (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1961-81), 2:93: 'Precisely the deep awareness of the gap that fate placed eternally between them and us incites us to lift ourselves ... to the heights opened up to our view ... We imitate their models with an awareness of their unattainability; we fill our imagination with the images of their free, richly endowed life with the feeling that this is just as much denied to us as the light existence of the inhabitants of their Olympus was denied to them'
20. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Werke in fünf Bänden, 1:784
21. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (Berlin: 1988), 1:783 (Homers Wettkampf); 8:17-18 and 19 (Wir Philologen 3[12]; 3[17])
22. cf. 7:351 (1871; draft of the foreword of The Birth of Tragedy dedicated to Richard Wagner): 'There is no truly beautiful surface that has no terrible depth'
23. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe, 1:784
24. E.g. H. Schliemann to Karl Plato, 23 July 1872
25. A genuine worry. Cf. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Homerische Untersuchungen (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), pp.415-416: 'And now we are supposed to think of these ideal images as retrograde clodhoppers in trashy Semitic jackets?...The people among whom Homer roamed showed abundant signs of a lack of culture (uncultur) in their dress and in their ways and an Asiatic flash-in-the-pan silliness, which the poet in part simply didn't see and in part found to his liking'. (Thanks to Tom Rosenmeyer for help with an English approximation.)