Inhalt

Introduction9

The General Framework

Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism
Glenn W. Most29

We and the Greeks
François Hartog49

Historiography and Philology

Classical Philology and the Making of Modernity in Germany
Pierre Judet de La Combe65

Philology in Germany: Textual or Cultural Scholarship?
Michael Werner89

Classical Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century Hungary: A Case Study in histoire croisée
Zsigmond Ritoók111

Reshaping the "Classical Tradition" to Question the European Political Order: Polish Case Studies
Jerzy Axer121

From Historia Magistra Vitae to History as Empirical Experimentation of Progress
Chryssanthi Avlami135

National Antiquities in East-Central Europe: Three Variations on a Leading Theme
Mónika Baár163

The Myth of Scythian Origin and the Cult of Attila in the Nineteenth Century
Gábor Klaniczay185

Differentiation in Entanglement: Debates on Antiquity, Ethnogenesis and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria
Diana Mishkova213

Relocating Ithaca: Alternative Antiquities in Modern Bulgarian Political Discourse
Balázs Trencsényi247

Archaeology and Historiography

The "Antiquitates" of the Greco-Roman World and Their Effect on Antiquarian Thought in Europe from the Renaissance to the Early Nineteenth Century
Alain Schnapp279

Contested Origins: French and German Views of a Shared Archaeological Heritage in Lorraine
Bonnie Effros305

From Ruins to Heritage: The Past Perfect and the Idealized Antiquity in North Africa
Nabila Oulebsir335

A Periphery on the Periphery of the Ancient World: The Discovery of Nubia in the Nineteenth Century
László Török365

Disciplinary Identity and Autonomy at the Beginnings of Archaeology in Romania
Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu381

Entangled Histories in South-East Europe: Memory and Archaeology
Bozidar Slapsak407

Entangled Objects, Entangled Scales

Quest for Homer(s) between Philology, Poetry, and Ethnography: Appropriations of Antiquity in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Balkans
Svetlana Slapsak435

Illyrian Heroes, Roman Emperors and Christian Martyrs: The Construction of a Croatian Archaeology between Rome and Vienna, 1815-1918
Daniel Baric449

The Orient's Obtuse Antiquity
Aziz Al-Azmeh463

From Republican to Imperial: The Survival and Perception of Antiquity in American Thought
Tibor Frank479

Cultural Appropriation and Social Diffusion of Antiquity

Goethe and Homer
Hendrik Birus501

Karl Ottfried Müller and the "Patriotic" Study of Religion
Éva Kocziszky513

Ex Ossibus Ultor: Virgil, Ezekiel and the Transformation of the Polish National Idea after 1795
Maciej Janowski527

The Myth of Sparta in Juliusz S?owacki and Cyprian Norwid's Dramas: Romantic Reinterpretation of Greek Heritage-the Polish Variant
Maria Kalinowska547

Classical Philology in Hungary in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and the Reception of Classical Greek Theater
György Karsai563

Classical Rhetoric between Public Education and the Education of the Public in Nineteenth-Century Hungary
Ottó Gecser573

Contributors587

Index593