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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roling, Bernd, 1972-, Schirg, Bernhard, Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Transformationen der Antike ; Bd. 48.
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  • 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.