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Greek Epigram in Reception - J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805-1929 (Hardcover, New)
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Greek Epigram in Reception - J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805-1929 (Hardcover, New)
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Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the
reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of
ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange
evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century
to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the
complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators
bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text,
pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its
poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and
their culture, the text became the battleground during the
1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of
Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became
caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting
the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were
supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses
or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde.
The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the
1920s, and still echo today.
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