Down from Olympus. Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970, Paperback

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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Author(s): Suzanne L. Marchand
• Illustration(s): 35 halftones
• Number of pages: 424
• Publication date: 2003
• Dimensions: 232 x 157 x 25
• Cover type: Paperback / softback