Classics and National Cultures
Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia
Abstract
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 ... More
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.
Keywords:
classics,
nation,
nationalism,
invention of tradition
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199212989 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199212989.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Susan A. Stephens, editor
Professor of Classics, Stanford University
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Phiroze Vasunia, editor
Reader, Department of Classics, University of Reading
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