Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World

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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the Enlightenment. Rather, the authors and contributors argue, there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Illustrations Plates Plate 1: Red-figure vase, c. 500–470 BCE Plate 2: Red-figure vase, c. 500–470 BCE Plate 3: Red-figure cup, c. 510–500 BCE Plate 4: Red-figure vase, c. 515–500 BCE Plate 5: Red-figure vase, c. 500 BCE Plate 6: Red-figure vase, early fifth century BCE Plate 7: Black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c. 550–530 BCE Plate 8: Tripod pyxis, c. 525–515 BCE Plate 9: Black-figure amphora, c. 550–520 BCE List of Contributors General Introduction Part I: Antiquity and the Enlightenment: Inventing the Present Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a History of Body History Chapter 2: Painters and Pederasts: Ancient Art, Sexuality, and Social History Chapter 3: Trimalchio’s Constipation: Periodizing Madness, Eros, and Time Chapter 4: Philosophy, Friendship, and Cultural History Chapter 5: Continuity and Change in Roman Social History: Retrieving ‘Family Feeling(s)’ from Roman Law and Literature Part II: Reconstructing the Past: The Practice of Periodization Introduction Chapter 6: Periodization and The Heroes: Inventing A Dark Age Chapter 7: Reconstructing Change: Ideology and The Eleusinian Mysteries Chapter 8: The Problem of Periodization: The Case of The Peloponnesian War Chapter 9: Change or Continuity? Children and Childhood in Hellenistic Historiography Chapter 10: Did Roman Women Have an Empire? References Index