{"product_id":"down-from-olympus-archaeology-and-philhellenism-in-germany-17501970-9780691114781","title":"Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany  1750-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of Eliza May Butlers Tyranny of Greece over Germany in 1935  the obsession of the German educated elite with the ancient Greeks has become an accepted  if severely underanalyzed  clich. In Down from Olympus  Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia  not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist  normative aesthetics and an ascetic  scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German \"neohumanists\" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments  and by so doing  to revitalize education and the arts. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology  Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art was made the basis for new  state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar  she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism.  This book discusses intellectual and institutional aspects of archaeology and philhellenism  giving extensive treatment to the history of prehistorical archaeology and German \"orientalism.\" Marchand traces the history of the study  excavation  and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social  cultural  and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953289650229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691114781","price":60.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691114781.jpg?v=1788184226","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/down-from-olympus-archaeology-and-philhellenism-in-germany-17501970-9780691114781","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}