Apotheosis of the North : the Swedish appropriation of classical antiquity around the Baltic Sea and beyond (1650 to 1800)

Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and...

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Main Authors Roling, Bernd, Schirg, Bernhard, Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
German
Published Berlin De Gruyter 2017
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Edition1
SeriesTransformationen der Antike
Subjects
Antike /Rezeption
Antiquarianism
Antiquarismus
Apotheosis
Civilization, Classical > Influence > Congresses
Comparative Linguistics
Comparative studies
Early works to 1800
Learning and scholarship > Scandinavia > History > Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Neo-Latin
Neulatein
Rudbeck, Olof, 1630-1702 > Congresses
Rudbeck, Olof, 1660-1740 > Congresses
Scandinavian Studies
Skandinavienstudien
Sweden > Intellectual life > Congresses
Vergleichende Linguistik
Antiquarismus
Vergleichende Linguistik
Neo-Latin
Comparative Linguistics
Antike /Rezeption
Neulatein
Skandinavienstudien
Antiquarianism
Scandinavian Studies
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ISBN9783110523171
3110523175
DOI10.1515/9783110524888

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Phoenix going Bananas. The Swedish Appropriation of a Classical Myth, and its Demise in Botanical Scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus) -- Olof Rudbeck the Younger's Oförgripelige tankar om amerikanska språket -- Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism -- Language Comparison before Comparative Linguistics: Theories of Language Change and Classification in Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica -- »Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor«. Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte -- She »lät illa i sömnen«!? How Eric Julius Biörner can still be read with profit - and even delight -- Ablaze in the Northern Sky Tears of Amber and the Relocation of Ovidian Myth to the Baltic Sea -- Goths, Gauls and Franks in Antoine Garissoles' Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden -- The Fauna of Fallen Babylon - Carl Aurivillius on the Animals in Isaiah 13:21 and the Task of Bible Hermeneutics -- Rudbeck and Oriental Studies: How Sanscrit studies transformed national myth -- Index
  • Contents --
  • Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus --
  • Phoenix going Bananas. The Swedish Appropriation of a Classical Myth, and its Demise in Botanical Scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus)
  • Index
  • Foreword --
  • Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Oförgripelige tankar om amerikanska språket
  • Bernd Roling --
  • Christian Peters --
  • Rudbeck and Oriental Studies: How Sanscrit studies transformed national myth
  • Goths, Gauls and Franks in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden
  • Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor«. Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte
  • Ablaze in the Northern Sky Tears of Amber and the Relocation of Ovidian Myth to the Baltic Sea
  • Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism
  • She »lät illa i sömnen«!? How Eric Julius Biörner can still be read with profit – and even delight
  • The Fauna of Fallen Babylon – Carl Aurivillius on the Animals in Isaiah 13:21 and the Task of Bible Hermeneutics
  • Peter Sjökvist --
  • Bernhard Schirg --
  • Annie Burman --
  • Benjamin Hübbe --
  • Introduction
  • Sofia Guthrie --
  • Outi Merisalo --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Language Comparison before Comparative Linguistics: Theories of Language Change and Classification in Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica
  • Vera Johanterwage --