The German Perspective and the German Archaeological Institute

Bittel, Kurt

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“…The rise of archaeology in the nineteenth century revitalized the study of classical art and civilization. The Deutsches Archäologisches Institut was founded in 1872 in order to enhance German national prestige as well as to provide an opening for German economic and colonizing activities (Bittel, 1980;Kohl, 1998). This 'grand-scale archaeology' as Marchand (2003) calls it, led to archaeological discoveries at Troy, Mycenae, Olympia, Pergamum, Magnesia, Priene and Miletos.…”

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At the Still Point of the Turning World: Freud's Reception of Winckelmann's Greece

Kool¹

2014

Psychoanalysis & History

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Freud's theory is primarily concerned with memory, about the present contained within the past. It is also rooted to the past in another way; Freud's reception of the Greek classical tradition played a vital role in the genesis of his oeuvre. Winckelmann's revival of ‘Greece’ dominated German culture up to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, yet besides the importance of Bildung in shaping Freud's early Gymnasium experience, his influence upon Freud is often neglected. While Freud's debt to German Hellenism is clearly demonstrated in his library of classical literature and his collection of Greco-Roman antiquities, the afterlife of Winckelmann's legacy is more subtly inscribed upon psychoanalysis. This paper focuses on Winckelmann's aesthetic reconstruction of classical Greece which made beauty, self-restraint and repression a cultural ideal to be imitated and admired. It is argued that hysteria provided one of the most powerful challenges to this ideal. Psychoanalysis can thus be seen as developing out of a milieu that was still overshadowed by Winckelmann's idealization of Greece. Further, it is argued that Winckelmann advanced a homoerotic tradition in German culture and the sedimentation of this tradition can be discerned in Freud's response to hysteria, his privileging of the masculine and his theory of bisexuality.

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At the Still Point of the Turning World: Freud's Reception of Winckelmann's Greece

Kool¹

2014

Psychoanalysis & History

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Archaeology and roman society: Integrating textual and archaeological data

Storey

1999

J Archaeol Res

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Although the collection of new data and the development of an enduring interest in theoretical concerns characterize much current work in Roman archaeology, the field continues to experience tension between traditional classical archaeological approaches and practices borrowed from other branches of archaeology. This tension is most clearly visible with the integration of textual and archaeological data. How the dynamic between these provenances plays out inRoman archaeology can be seen in theoretical and methodological applications, the use of field survey, and the adoption of an Annaliste perspective by some Roman archaeologists. Text and archaeology are crucial contributors to the the study of early Rome and its origins, investigations in the capital for all periods, the study of Pompeii, and attempts to illuminate the chief characteristics of the Roman economy. Many advances in Roman archaeology have occurred largely as a result of a conscious attempt on the part of Roman archaeologists to properly contextualize textual data in light of the archaeological data, thereby providing a better balance between the two sets of information and liberating archaeology from being the "handmaid of history."

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Leagros Kalos

Francis

Vickers

1981

Proc. Camb. Philol. Soc.

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In 1920 Ernst Langlotz proposed a scheme for dating Greek vases in terms of absolute and not merely relative chronology. His monograph was entitled Zur Zeitbestimmung der strengrotfigurigen Vasenmalerei und der gleichzeitigen Plastik and was dedicated to his teacher Franz Studniczka. Studniczka's own essay, ‘Zur Zeitbestimmung der Vasenmalerei mit roten Figuren’ had itself represented a landmark in the chronological study of Greek vase painting. As Langlotz's title suggests, he thought it possible to derive a dating system for Greek vases based on stylistic comparisons between the medium of Greek vase-painting and that of sculpture. The Siphnian Treasury, the Marathon Tumulus, and the Persian sack of Athens, however, provided the only supposedly fixed points in Langlotz's framework. He therefore sought other evidence which would link vase-painting to the known facts of Greek history and decided to develop Studniczka's investigation of the extent to which the subjects of kalos-inscriptions possessed an independent historical identity.

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The German Perspective and the German Archaeological Institute

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At the Still Point of the Turning World: Freud's Reception of Winckelmann's Greece

At the Still Point of the Turning World: Freud's Reception of Winckelmann's Greece

Archaeology and roman society: Integrating textual and archaeological data

Leagros Kalos

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