Classics and National Cultures [Hardcover]

Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms.

Introduction
1. 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence,Nicholas Allen
2. Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna,Richard H. Armstrong
3. Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy,Giovanna Ceserani
4. Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style,Joy Connolly
5. Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men,Emily Greenwood
6. Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930,Constanze Guthenke
7. Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition,Asen Kirin
8. The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination,Andrew Laird
9. Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature,Vassilis Lambropoulos
10. How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland,Fernanda Moore
11. Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff,Grant Parker
12. Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews,James Porter
13. Contestatory Cll“Ô