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What Is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity? Eight Propositions JAMES I. PORTER I. "CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY" IS NOT CONSISTENTLY CLASSICAL In 1930 classical studies experienced an insurrection. Werner Jaeger, in apostasy from his teacher Wilamowitz, convened a conference in Naumburg called "The Problem of the Classical" (Das Problem des Klassischen).
Conventionally, classical antiquity comprises not one comprehensive classical expanse but two isolated classical moments: fifth- and fourth-century Athens, and Augustan Rome.
Classical Art History. Michael Squire. The aim of this virtual issue is to bring together a selection of articles on ancient Greek and Roman art historical subjects. On the one hand, the anthology makes publicly available – and without cost – eleven contributions that have been published in Art History between 1978 and 2018. On the other ...
Dec 14, 2017 · This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns – sexuality, death and the nature of art – its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of...
Classical texts, as receptacles of voice, were a mnemonic of the classical past (cf. [Longinus], On the Sublime 7.3, 8.4, 33.3; Cicero, On the Making of an Orator 3.45). Recovering their sound was a way of living, literally of experiencing, the past the way it once was.
- James I. Porter
The cir-cumstances under which viewers encountered art underwent marked change during the course of the eighteenth century. In England, the cultural and political revolutions of the seventeenth century had undermined the role of both church and king as major artistic patrons.
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May 29, 2018 · In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art’s future. What we call classical art did not simply ...
