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SUMMARY:‘The Other Classical Past: Germans and Romans 1800-1819’ - Han
 na Weibye (Cambridge\, History).   
DTSTART:20130131T171500Z
DTEND:20130131T183000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:Following the CRDG's extremely successful colloquium on 'Germa
 n philhellenism' at the end of the Michaelmas term\, we are delighted that
  Hanna Weibye will be able to give us some perspective on a less well-know
 n and appreciated aspect of Germany's engagement with the Classical past:\
 n\n_Deutsches Volkstum_ (1810) is one of the founding texts of German nati
 onalism\, written by a man (Friedrich Ludwig Jahn) who was also famous for
  founding a nationalist gymnastics movement.  Jahn frequently reaches for 
 the Classical past to construct his argument about Germany's future\, but 
 his preference is not (as the prominent history of German philhellenism in
  this period might lead us to expect) for Athens and Sparta: rather\, he c
 hooses examples from Roman history.  This paper seeks to examine Jahn's en
 gagement with Rome and then to ask some larger questions about the relatio
 nship of Germans to the 'other' Classical past in the first decades of the
  nineteenth century.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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