Apotheosis of the North : the Swedish appropriation of classical antiquity around the Baltic Sea and beyond (1650 to 1800) /
This volume sheds new light on the formative phase of Scandinavian scholarship shaped by Olof Rudbeck's baroque history of the world, 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702). Through essays on Neo-Latin poetry, Norse texts and translations, mythology, botany, zoology, linguistics and oriental...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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Colección: | Transformationen der Antike ;
Bd. 48. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.