The Language and Culture of Ancient Greece in Today’s World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. List of Figures XV
5. Part I: Now and Then: From the Present to the Past and into the Future
6. Civilisation or Civilisations? New Contexts for the Ancient Greek Achievement 1
7. Another Journey: Odysseus and the Future of Greek Studies 11
8. Julian’s School Law, Cultural Capital, and the Future of Classics 23
9. The Ancient World: Past, Present, and Future of Europe 35
10. Part II: Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity
11. The Iliad’s Pre-Echoes of Future Apocalypse 53
12. On the Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik in German-Language Philology and Literature 73
13. On the Concept of ‘Slow Reading’ in Latin Language and Literature 81
14. Reflective Discourse and the Augustan Paradigm: The Origins of Modern Critical Debate 95
15. Part III: Patterns of Politics and “Socio-Culture”
16. The Mycenaean Legacy: Patterns of State Formation in Western Civilization 115
17. The Future of Classics: The Cost of Forgetting 135
18. Hubris, Ancient and Modern 155
19. On the Powers and Dangers of Collective Identity: History in the Mirror or through the Window? 175
20. Part IV: New Stances, New Perspectives
21. Classical Studies (Altertumswissenschaft) in the Anthropocene 201
22. Philologies of the Present for the Future 213
23. Philology in Motion: The Future of Classical Studies and the ‘Philological Turn’ 235
24. The Future of the Classical Past 257
25. Part V: Language, Linguistics and Philology
26. The Language and Culture of Ancient Greece in Today’s World 271
27. The Future of the Past: From Regional Studies to Human Heritage Research 283
28. Re-establishing Communication Between Linguists and Classicists: A Philologist’s Plea 301
29. “The Future of the Past”: Historical and Comparative Linguistics as Partners of Philology 317
30. List of Contributors 347
31. Index Locorum 351
32. General Index 353