This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term ‘anachronism’ as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of history, this book argues that classical antiquity had a rich and varied understanding of historical difference, which is reflected in sophisticated notions of anachronism.
This central hypothesis is tested by an examination of attitudes to temporal errors in ancient literary texts and chronological writings and by analysing notions of anachronistic survival and multitemporality. Rather than seeing a sense of anachronism as something that separates modernity from antiquity, the book suggests that in both ancient writings and their modern receptions chronological rupture can be used as a way of creating a dialogue between past and present. With a selection of case-studies and theoretical discussions presented in a manner suitable for scholars and students both of classical antiquity and of modern history, anthropology, and visual culture, the book’s ambition is to offer a new conceptual map of antiquity through the notion of anachronism.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Prelude: Look to the End
1. Inventing Anachronism
2. Anachronistic Histories
3. Anachronism and Philology
Interlude 1: Dido versus Virgil
4. Anachronism and Chronology
5. Anachronistic Survivals
6. Anachronism and Exemplarity
Interlude 2: Ariadne on Naxos
7. Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments
Interlude 3: Aeneas in the Underworld
8. Anachronistic Dialogues
Epilogue: Crowning the Victors
Notes
References
Index
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A riveting, unapologetically intelligent read … [The authors] display a thrilling sense of clarity, polymathy and rather exciting erudition, the interdisciplinarity of any true intellectual enterprise, all of which they share with true scholarly humility.
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The first wide-ranging study of the concept of anachronism in Greco-Roman antiquity, transforming modern conceptualizations of the history of temporality.
Wide-ranging coverage of Greek and Roman texts and images
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350115200
Publisert
2020-02-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296