The reception of Greek figurative terracottas in the Age of Enlightenment1

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Jaimee P Uhlenbrock
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Roman Antiquity

Abstract While figurative terracottas from Greco-Roman antiquity were brought to light in considerable numbers from sites on the Italian mainland and in Sicily in the seventeenth century, they were consistently overlooked as important and representative examples of classical art. It was only in the later eighteenth century in Sicily that important collections of Greek figurative terracottas were assembled that began to attract the attention of northern Europeans. A demand for these accessible examples of miniature Greek sculpture arose that ultimately contributed to the formation of some of the most important antiquities collections in Europe.

scholarly journals AS AVENTURAS DE TELÉMACO E DIÓFANES: A FORMAÇÃO VIRTUOSA ATRAVÉS DE NARRATIVAS ROMANESCAS NO SÉCULO XVIII | THE ADVENTURES OF TELÉMACO AND DIÓFANES: THE VIRTUOUS UPBRINGING THROUGH NOVELISTIC NARRATIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

2016 ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Valnikson Viana Oliveira ◽  
Daniela Maria Segabinazi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
French Author ◽  
Roman Antiquity

<p>Este artigo procura mostrar de que maneira os romances <em>As aventuras de Telémaco</em> (2006), do autor francês François Fénelon, e <em>Aventuras de Diófanes</em> (1993), da escritora luso-brasileira Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta, contribuíam para a formação virtuosa de crianças durante o século XVIII. As narrativas resgataram personagens e mitos da antiguidade clássica greco-romana para difundir determinados valores morais e cívicos, também envolvendo críticas ao contexto político e social de França e Portugal. Para embasar nosso trabalho, nos valemos principalmente de Abreu (2003), Coelho (1991) e Hipolito (2004), compreendendo as obras em seu contexto histórico de produção e circulação. </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> <em>This article aims to show how the novels </em>As aventuras de Telémaco<em> (2006) by the French author Francois Fénelon and </em>Aventuras de Diófanes<em> (1993) by the Luso-Brazilian writer Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta contributed to the virtuous upbringing of children during the eighteenth century. The narratives not only revived characters and myths of Greco-Roman antiquity to diffuse certain moral and civic values but also entailed criticism of the political and social context of France and Portugal. As the basis for the discussion, the works of Abreu (2003), Coleho (1991) and Hipolito (2004) are utilized to assist in the understanding of the novels in the historical context of their production and circulation</em>.</p>

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Emanuela Bianchi ◽  
Sara Brill ◽  
Brooke Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Classical Scholarship ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Texts

This chapter introduces the main purpose of the volume, namely staging, through fourteen essays, an encounter between the texts of classical Greco-Roman antiquity and the insights of posthumanism and the “new materialisms,” which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through and beyond the human, It discusses how ancient texts, experienced through this lens as both familiar and strange, can forge new understandings of life, whether understood as zoological, psychical, ethical, juridical, political, theological, or cosmic. Further, it situates the volume within the history of classical scholarship since the eighteenth century, and relates how the volume contributes to the broader milieu of contemporary philosophy and the theoretical humanities. Finally, it gives an outline of each chapter, showing how each contributes to the volume’s project as a whole.

Common Law Constitutionalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Law System ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Law System

This chapter shows how common law pleading, the use of common law vocabulary, and substantive common law rules lay at the foundation of every colony’s law by the middle of the eighteenth century. There is some explanation of how this common law system functioned in practice. The chapter then discusses why colonials looked upon the common law as a repository of liberty. It also discusses in detail the development of the legal profession individually in each of the thirteen colonies. Finally, the chapter ends with a discussion of the role of legislation. It shows that, although legislation had played an important role in the development of law and legal institutions in the seventeenth century, eighteenth-century Americans were suspicious of legislation, with the result that the output of pre-Revolutionary legislatures was minimal.

The Musical Topic of the Mass in B Minor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Church Music ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Entire Spectrum ◽  
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

If there is a fundamental musical subject of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, a compositional problem the work explores, it is the tension between two styles cultivated in church music of Bach’s time. One style was modern and drew on up-to-date music such as the instrumental concerto and the opera aria. The other was old-fashioned and fundamentally vocal, borrowing and adapting the style of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, his sixteenth-century contemporaries, and his seventeenth-century imitators. The movements that make up Bach’s Mass can be read as exploring the entire spectrum of possibilities offered by these two styles (the modern and the antique), ranging from movements purely in one or the other to a dazzling variety of ways of combining the two. The work illustrates a fundamental opposition in early-eighteenth-century sacred music that Bach confronts and explores in the Mass.

Inventing the English Massacre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Games
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
English Language ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
Violent Event ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
English East India Company ◽  
British Culture

This book explains how a conspiracy trial featuring English, Japanese, and Indo-Portuguese co-conspirators who allegedly plotted against the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean in 1623 produced a diplomatic crisis in Europe and became known for four centuries in British culture as the Amboyna Massacre. The story of the transformation of this conspiracy into a massacre is a story of Anglo-Dutch relations in the seventeenth century and of a new word in the English language, massacre. The English East India Company drew on this new word to craft an enduring story of cruelty, violence, and ingratitude. Printed works—both pamphlets and images—were central to the East India Company’s creation of the massacre and to the story’s tenacity over four centuries as the texts and images were reproduced during conflicts with the Dutch and internal political disputes in England. By the eighteenth century, the story emerged as a familiar and shared cultural touchstone. By the nineteenth century, the Amboyna Massacre became the linchpin of the British Empire, an event that historians argued well into the twentieth century had changed the course of history and explained why the British had a stronghold in India. The broad familiarity with the incident and the Amboyna Massacre’s position as an early and formative violent event turned the episode into the first English massacre. It shaped the meaning of subsequent acts of violence, and placed intimacy, treachery, and cruelty at the center of massacres in ways that endure to the present day.

The Nonconformist Inheritance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Rivers
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Religious Attitudes ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
The Many ◽  
John Owen

This chapter analyses the editions, abridgements, and recommendations of texts by seventeenth-century nonconformists that were made by eighteenth-century dissenters, Methodists, and Church of England evangelicals. The nonconformist writers they chose include Joseph Alleine, Richard Baxter, John Flavel, John Owen, and John Bunyan. The editors and recommenders include Philip Doddridge, John Wesley, Edward Williams, Benjamin Fawcett, George Burder, John Newton, William Mason, and Thomas Scott. Detailed accounts are provided of the large number of Baxter’s works that were edited, notably A Call to the Unconverted and The Saints Everlasting Rest, and a case study is devoted to the many annotated editions of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and the ways in which they were used. The editors took into account length, intelligibility, religious attitudes, and cost, and sometimes criticized their rivals’ versions on theological grounds.

Dissent and Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dissenting Academies

Much eighteenth-century Dissenting educational activity was built on an older tradition of Puritan endeavour. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the godly had seen education as an important tool in spreading their ideas but, in the aftermath of the Restoration, had found themselves increasingly excluded from universities and schools. Consequently, Dissenters began to develop their own higher educational institutions (in the shape of Dissenting academies) and also began to set up their own schools. While the enforcement of some of the legal restrictions that made it difficult for Dissenting institutions diminished across the eighteenth century, the restrictions did not disappear entirely. While there has been considerable focus on Dissenting academies and their contribution to debates about doctrinal orthodoxy, the impact of Dissenting schools was also considerable.

Bringing Rain and Protection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barend J. ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Supreme Deity ◽  
Do So

Deities were thought to help and protect people, heal them from illnesses, and sometimes also to punish them. And yet, a worshipper was not free to decide what to ask for, but had to work within a collectively created and transmitted paradigm of expectations of the deity. In Northern China, Lord Guan was often requested to provide rain, and everywhere he was asked to assist in the fight against demons and other types of outsiders (barbarians, rebels, or otherwise), or even appeared of his own accord to do so. From the early seventeenth century onwards, Guan Yu was seen as the incarnation of a dragon executed at the command of the Jade Emperor for bringing rain out of compassion to a local community sentenced to extinction by the supreme deity. Finally, his loyal image inspired his rise as a God of Wealth in the course of the eighteenth century.

Classics and Media Theory

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Of Greece

The aim of this volume is to introduce a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory. It addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter, and how they might be developed further. The volume seeks to promote more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. It also aims to create more awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory. It foregrounds the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory. And it calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of scholarly practices around the transformation of ancient Greece and Rome into ‘classical’ cultures.

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