Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century

Case Studies

Thorsten Fögen, Richard Warren, Thorsten Fögen, Richard Warren

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9783110473490
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Through a series of case studies covering a broad range of source material, it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, archaeologists, art historians and others.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Copyright References
• Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Introduction
• Classical Ideals and the Formation of Modern Nations in Europe
• Making Nations in the Image of Greece: Classical Greek Conceptions of the Body in the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century England, France and Germany
• ‘Je viens comme Thémistocle’: Napoleon and National Identity after Waterloo
• The Emperor’s Caesar: Napoleon III, Karl Marx and the History of Julius Caesar
• Faithful unto Death: Militarism, Masculinity and National Identity in Victorian Britain
• Constructing the Nation and Empire: Victorian and Edwardian Images of the Building of Roman Fortifications
• Henry Courteney Selous’ Boadicea and the Westminster Cartoon Competition
• A Nation Finds its People: Friedrich Kohlrausch, New Readers and Readings of Tacitus’ Germania and the Rise of a Popular Germa Nationalism
• Hermann the German: Nineteenth-Century Monuments and Histories
• Arminius in Bohemia: Two Uses of Tacitus in Czech Art
• Classical Translations and Strands of Irish Nationalism
• Contributors
• Index rerum
• Index nominum (personarum)
• Index locorum