Friedrich August Wolf and the Birth of the Altertumswissenschaft

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the Current Edition V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Towards a Science of Antiquity
6. Richard Bentley and Philology as the Art of Conjecture 9
7. Christian Gottlob Heyne: New Ways of Studying Antiquity 35
8. Friedrich August Wolf and the Birth of the Altertumswissenschaft 57
9. Humboldt, the Classical Gymnasium, and the University of Berlin 91
10. Part II: The Illusion of the Archetype. Classical Studies in Nineteenth-Century Germany
11. Karl Lachmann: Method and Science 117
12. Hermann contra Boeckh: Formal Philology and Historical Philology 133
13. Nietzsche and the Controversy over the Tragic 163
14. Wilamowitz: Philology as ‘Totality’ 189
15. Part III: Classical Philology in the Twentieth- Century
16. Werner Jaeger and the Third Humanism 213
17. Giorgio Pasquali and Philology as a Historical Science 239
18. New Antiquities: The Papyri 277
19. Retelling Antiquity: Words and Images 299
20. Postwar Philology: New Perspectives 317
21. Works of Classical Philology: A Select Bibliography 349
22. Notes on Contributors 351
23. Index of Names 355