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Article: Nach Olympia: Hoderlin und die Erfindung der Antike.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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Nach Olympia: Holderlin und die Erfindung der Antike By ALEXANDER HONOLD. Berlin: Vorwerk 8. 2000, 232 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 3-930916-51-7 (pbk).
As the author warns us in his introduction, the title contains a double ambiguity, First, the genitive 'der Antike' is both subjective and objective, '[d]enn die als Errungenschaften oder Erfindungen der Antike in die Gegenwart hineinragenden Kulturphanomene sind samtlich durch den Filter einer in den letzten zweihundert Jahren ihrerseits neuer fundenen Antike hindurchgegangen' (p. 10) The inventions of the ancients are thus in part the inventions of the moderns as they reconstruct ancient civilization. Second, the ...