From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and
culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has
considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through
which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland,
explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father,
informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his
conviction that Celt and Greek shared a hereditary aesthetic
sensibility, while major works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray
and The Importance of Being Earnest maintain a dynamic, creative
relationship with originary texts such as Aristotle's Ethics,
Plato's dialogues and the then lost comedies of Menander. Drawing
on unpublished archival material, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
offers a new portrait of a writer whose work embodies both the
late-nineteenth-century conflict between literary and material
antiquity and his own contradictory impulses towards Hellenist form
and the formlessness of desire.
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