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Overview
Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms.
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Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University.
Phiroze Vasunia is Reader in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Illustrations xiii
Introduction 1
1 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics, and Independence Nicholas Allen 16
2 Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna Richard H. Armstrong 34
3 Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy Giovanna Ceserani 59
4 Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style Joy Connolly 78
5 Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V.S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men Emily Greenwood 100
6 Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930 Constanze Güthenke 121
7 Eastern European Nations, Western Culture, and the Classical Tradition Asen Kirin 141
8 The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination Andrew Laird 163
9 Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature Vassilis Lambropoulos 182
10 How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland Fernanda Moore 199
11 Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T.J. Haarhoff Grant Parker 217
12 Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews James I. Porter 235
13 Contestatory Classics in 1920s China Haun Saussy 258
14 The New Alexandrian Library Susan A. Stephens 267
15 Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan Yasunari Takada 285
16 Alexander Sikandar Phiroze Vasunia 302
Bibliography 325
Index 361