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In Down from Olympus Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book 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. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology, Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art, especially sculpture, was made the basis for new, state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar, she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism. Most important, Marchand traces the history of the study, excavation, and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social, cultural and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries. Although it emphasizes the persistence of ancient models, Down from Olympus is very much a modern tale.

Neoclassicism (Art) --- Intellectual life. --- Enlightenment. --- Civilization, Classical. --- Art, Greek --- Archaeology. --- Civilisation ancienne. --- Neoclassicisme (Art) --- Siecle des lumieres. --- Archeologie. --- Enlightenment --- Archaeology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Greek art --- Art, Aegean --- Classical antiquities --- Art, Greco-Bactrian --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- Art, Modern --- Classicism in art --- Revival movements (Art) --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Influence. --- History. --- Germany. --- Allemagne --- Germany --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Vie intellectuelle --- Intellectual life --- Althoff, Friedrich. --- Aristotle. --- Bersu, Gerhard. --- Bildung. --- Brunn, Heinrich. --- Catholicism. --- Delbriick, Richard. --- Djemal Pasha. --- Dorpfeld, Wilhelm. --- Egyptology. --- Freytag, Hermann. --- George, Stefan. --- Gerhard, Eduard. --- Gymnasium. --- Hamdi Edhem. --- Herder, J. G. --- Homer. --- Ishtar Gate. --- Jaspers, Karl. --- Koldewey, Robert. --- Lachmann, Karl. --- Lebensphilosophie. --- Pausanias. --- Plato. --- Reichslimeskommission. --- Schede, Martin. --- Troeltsch, Ernst. --- Weber, Max. --- cast collections. --- excavation agreements. --- museums. --- natural sciences. --- neohumanism. --- Neoclassicism (Art). --- Filhellenisme. --- Griekse oudheid. --- Oriëntalisme. --- Philhellenism --- Archéologie --- Art grec --- Histoire --- Influence --- 1700-1999. --- Greek influences --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс --- Europe