An Klassikern kranken Christoph Martin Wieland und die tragische Klassik der Griechen
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1434
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110473117-011
- Book title
- Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110473117
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This article concerns the fundamental dialectic of the classical and the post-classical that underpins many accounts of literary history. It juxtaposes the formation of the Greek tragic canon in antiquity (Aristophanes, Astydamas II, Lucian) with the reception of that canon in 18th c. Weimar. Wieland offers an acute account of the emergence of classical Greek tragedy, both in his novelistic and his critical and journalistic writings, and he harnesses the ancient debates to reflect brilliantly on the literary culture of his day. The Weimarer Klassik emerges in a new light as inextricably linked to ancient meditations on the post-classical.
