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Pater the Classicist - Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Hardcover)
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Pater the Classicist - Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter
Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity.
Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known
as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of
the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession
who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about
Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an influential
historical novel set in ancient Rome, Marius the Epicurean, and a
variety of short stories depicting the survival of classical
culture in later ages. These superficially diverging interests
actually went closely hand-in-hand: it can plausibly be asserted
that it is the classical tradition in its broadest sense, including
the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities,
which forms Pater's principal subject as a writer. Although he
initially approached antiquity obliquely, through the Italian
Renaissance, for example, or the poetry of William Morris, later in
his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient
world, and particularly about Greece, his first love. The essays in
this collection cover all his major works and reveal a many-sided
and inspirational figure, whose achievements helped to reinvigorate
the classical studies that were the basis of the English
educational system of the nineteenth century, and whose conception
of Classics as cross-disciplinary and outward-looking can be a
model to scholars and students today. They discuss his classicism
generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity, his writings on
Greek art and culture, and those on ancient philosophy, and in
doing so they also illuminate Pater's position within his Victorian
context, among figures such as J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship,
Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison, as well as his place in the study
and reception of Classics today.
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