The Unclassical as Classic
The Modern Reception of Euripides
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7960253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann N Michelini (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 699 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772954 |
| OpenAlex | W2319432993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In tracing the history of scholarship on the Greek tragedian Euripides (see Michelini, 1987), I became increasingly convinced that the prevailing views on Euripides have remained essentially unchanged since the end of the eighteenth century. It is my thesis that the Euripidean problem had its point of origin in the initial self-definition of modern studies and of modern classicism. T. J. Reiss (1982: 96-97) has suggested that there are crucial moments in intellectual history when major issues are decided for a coming era; at the end of that era, finding a new direction may require a return to the decision point at which the original dilemma was solved in one way or the other. For classical studies, the work of Euripides, and the view taken of it by certain German critics at the end of the eighteenth century, may be such a point. The end of the Enlightenment marked a new beginning in the continuing rediscovery of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Previous generations had tended to see themselves as part of an unbroken development out of antiquity; for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, controversy centered on whether this process was one of degeneration or progressive improvement. The new view of antiquity was more discontinuous. For those who were rediscovering the beauties of Greek literature and art, the Athenian fifth century represented a point of perfection, separated from the modern era by a vast wash of second-rate culture and a few bright moments of revival, in which artistic, literary, and his
Art · Literature · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Philology
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |