Apotheosis of the North : : The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800) /

Apotheosis of the North : : The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800) / / ed. by Bernhard Schirg, Bernd Roling, Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus.

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Despite its enormous extent and impact, the Swedish scholarship produced in the context of Olof Rudbeck's monumental 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702) has hitherto escaped attention outside Scandinavia. The present volume explores the numerous disciplines that comprised this, one of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich,
Burman, Annie,
Guthrie, Sofia,
Hübbe, Benjamin,
Johanterwage, Vera,
Merisalo, Outi,
Peters, Christian,
Roling, Bernd,
Schirg, Bernhard,
Sjökvist, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich,
Roling, Bernd,
Schirg, Bernhard,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Transformationen der Antike , 48
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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