The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics.
PrefaceIntroduction11Greece and the Invention of Culture: Winckelmann162The Silence of Greece: Keats523The Choice of Tragedy: From Keats to Schelling854The History of Freedom: From Aeschylus to Shelley1085The Time of Judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound1346The Recall of Thought: Holderlin158Notes201Index243