Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
Note on translations and citations
Acknowledgements
1: Introduction: Winckelmann and the imagined community of classical scholarship, 1790-1930
Part One: Winckelmann in Context
2: Placez moi dans un coin de Votre Bibliotheque: Winckelmann's career in Germany and his self-positioning within the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters
3: Kennzeichen der griechischen Meisterstücke: Winckelmann's early Roman writings and the discourse of connoisseurship
4: Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums and its earliest critical reception
Part Two: On the Contours of das Altertum and the Possibility of its Recovery: Heyne versus Wolf
Introduction to Part 2
5: Homeric questions: A late eighteenth-century priority dispute
6: Heyne, Winckelmann and Altertumswissenschaft
Conclusion to Part 2: the problem of Wolf's Hellenism
Part Three: Altertumswissenschaft and the Amateur: Johann Gottfried Herder
7: Herder, Winckelmann, and Wissenschaft
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Katherine Harloe is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.

Reviews

This learned book is well worth reading and pondering. It examines one of the central figures in the transition from eighteenth century antiquarianism to nineteenth century Altertumswissenschaft: Johann Joachim Winckelmann.
*Bernie Frischer, The Classical Journal*

meticulously researched ... This is a book of considerable learning.
*Michael Squire, British Journal of Aesthetics*

We are accordingly indebted to Harloe's well-informed book for many new insights on the early reception of Winckelmann in Germany.
*H. B. Nisbet, German Quarterly*