Antiquity in Print

Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

Daniel Orrells

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Bloomsbury Academic
13 June 2024

Prints & printmaking; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Series: New Directions in Classics

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts.

With the explosion of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, eighteenth-century intellectuals, antiquarians and artists such as Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Comte de Caylus, James Stuart, Julien-David Leroy, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville all became interested in how printed engravings of ancient art and archaeology could visualize a historical narrative. These figures theorized the relationship between ancient text and ancient material and visual culture - theorizations which would pave the way to foundational questions at the heart of the discipline of classical studies and neoclassical aesthetics.

By: Daniel Orrells
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350407770
ISBN 10: 1350407771
Series: New Directions in Classics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 13 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Historicity, Disciplinarity and Materiality Chapter 1: Achilles' Shield and Vico's Frontispiece Chapter 2: Visualising Philhellenism Chapter 3: Putting Ancient Greece into the Picture Epilogue: From Lessing to Kauffmann: Awaiting the Return of Ancient Greece Notes Bibliography Index

Daniel Orrells is Professor of Classics at King’s College London, UK. He is author of Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2015) and Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011), and is co-editor of The Mudimbe Reader (2016) and African Athena: New Agendas (2011).

Reviews for Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth Century

While traditionally considered a discipline driven by philological exactitude, Antiquity in Print highlights just how much the emergence of Classics was conditioned by the use of images and a sophisticated visual rhetoric. Written with verve and erudition, Orrells presents an important reframing of the historiography of Classical scholarship. -- Hans C. Hönes, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Aberdeen, UK