German Philhellenism The Pathos Of The Historical Imagination From Winckelmann To Goethe Damian Valdez by Damian Valdez 9781137293152, 9781349451081, 1137293152, 1349451088 instant download after payment.

This book tells the story of the relationship between German letters and ancient Greece in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is a study of two generations; that of Winckelmann and Herder, and that of Schiller and the younger Goethe. It tells the story of philhellenic ideas in the half century before Romanticism and Napoleon changed the terms in which the various legacies of Greek antiquity were conceived and manifested in art, literature, and historiography. This study is a complement to the work of Suzanne Marchand, whose Down from Olympus has delineated the German interest in Greece from the point of view archeology and educational institutions, and to the work of Katherine Harloe, whose book, Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity , elucidates philhellenic ideas in this period in the context of their relationship with classical philology.