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Was Greek Thought Religious?
On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, from Rome to Romanticism
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About this book
The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places - everywhere from the U.S. Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games - and in doing so makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter One: Was Greek Thought Religious? The View from the Courts
- Chapter Two: The Son Supplants the Father: Seduction, Socratic Piety, and the Life of Virtue
- Chapter Three: Pausanias at Olympia: The Greece Inside Rome
- Chapter Four: The Short Pagan Career of Julian, the Apostate: Hellenism as Culture
- Chapter Five: Icons and Incarnation: Hellenism Becomes a Heresy
- Chapter Six: "A Mingle-Mangle of Heathenisme": Renaissance Theater, Renegade Theater
- Chapter Seven: Childe Harold's Heyday: Lord Byron and the Levant Lunatics
- Chapter Eight: From Greece to Germany, From Aegina to Munich: Charles Cockerell and the Discovery of the Pedimental Sculpture from the Temple to Aphaia
- Chapter Nine: The Ethos of Olympism: Greek Religion for the Modern World
- Appendix One: George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824): A Chronology
- Appendix Two: Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863): Grand Tour Itinerary
- Appendix Three: Johann Martin Wagner (1777–1858): Itinerary of His Greek Journey, 1812–1813
- Notes