Was Greek thought religious? : on the use and abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruprecht, Louis A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenism.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy and religion--Greece.

Philosophy and religion.

Philosophy and religion--History.

History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture--we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places--everywhere from the US Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games--and in so doing makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Was Greek Thought Religious? The View from the Courts 1

Chapter 2 The Son Supplants the Father: Seduction, Socratic Piety, and the Life of Virtue 25

Chapter 3 Pausanias at Olympia: The Greece Inside Rome 39

Chapter 4 The Short Pagan Career of Julian, the Apostate: Hellenism as Culture 59

Chapter 5 Icons and Incarnation: Hellenism Becomes a Heresy 77

Chapter 6 "A Mingle-Mangle of Heathenisme": Renaissance Theater, Renegade Theater 93

Chapter 7 Childe Harold's Heyday: Lord Byron and the Levant Lunatics 111

Chapter 8 From Greece to Germany, From Aegina to Munich: Charles Cockerell and the Discovery of the Pedimental Sculpture from the Temple to Aphaia 125

Chapter 9 The Ethos of Olympism: Greek Religion for the Modern World 141

Appendix 1 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824): A Chronology 167

Appendix 2 Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863): Grand Tour Itinerary 175

Appendix 3 Johann Martin Wagner (1777-1858): Itinerary of His Greek Journey, 1812-1813 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-268).

ISBN:

0312295626

0312295634

OCLC:

49529947