Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World

Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World
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ISBN-10 : 9789004274952
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Download or read book Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World written by Christoph Pieper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past from approximately the fifth century BCE until the second century CE. It examines how specific communities used notions of antiquity to define themselves or others, which models from the past proved most desirable, what literary or exegetic modes they employed, and how temporal systems for ascribing value intersected with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the application of aesthetic criteria.


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