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2 - Genealogy, Translation, and Resistance

Between the Bible and the Greeks

from Part I - Antiquity’s Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2023

Simon Goldhill
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft
Affiliation:
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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This chapter looks at how Victorians constructed a genealogical relation to antiquity and the Bible, forming both as a cultural, intellectual and spiritual origin for modernity. It shows how philology was the discipline which linked theology and classics as disciplines, and how historiography and archaeology were mobilized to understand the present as the outcome of the past. In particular, it looks at how William Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Brooke Foss Westcott, Charles Kingsley, and Henry Montagu Butle, used translation, Homeric studies, historical fiction and cultural history to forge a contentious and contested relation between the biblical and classical pasts and modernity.

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Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
The Shock of the Old
, pp. 19 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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