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SUMMARY:Coming down with the Classics: a case report (Aristophanes\, Lucia
 n\, C.M. Wieland et al.) - University of Cambridge/University of Basel
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CONTACT:Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:This paper deals with the canonisation of Greek Tragedy and va
 rious resonances of this process in later literature – particularly in t
 he work of the German writer\, poet\, publicist\, literary critic\, transl
 ator and classical scholar Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813). \n\nFor b
 oth poets and their audiences\, exposure to the poetic achievements of the
  past may result in the following side-effects: moderate to blind admirati
 on\, anxiety\, misreading\, parrotism (most common)\, fetishizing\, idolat
 ry\, inferiority-complex\, irreverence (common)\, abuse\, mania\, necrophi
 lia (less common)\, suicidal tendencies (rare cases).\n\nMy main interest 
 will be the coincidence of these symptoms in the so called ‘Abderite dis
 ease’ (ἀβδηριτικὸν πάθος)\, an epidemic of acute Class
 icism first caused by the performance of Euripides’ Andromeda in the the
 atre of Abdera at an unknown date.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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