Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 12 : The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment

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Encyclopaedias
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A. Introduction

Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment was not a distinct field of expertise that could have been defined for the content of an encyclopaedia. Greco-Roman culture was an intensively-studied aspect of mythology, religion, philosophy, science, technology, cartography, art, literature, society and politics, and it played a particularly crucial role in teaching at schools and universitiesGreek and L…

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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes, “Encyclopaedias”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 12 : The Reception of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment, English edition by Christina C. Harker; Translated by Duncan A. Smart (2021). Original German-language edition: Das 18. Jahrhundert: Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in Aufklärung und Klassizismus. Herausgegeben von Joachim Jacob und Johannes Süßmann. Serie: Der Neue Pauly – Supplemente, 2. Staffel, herausgegeben von Manfred Landfester, Jörg Rüpke und Helmuth Schneider, Band 13. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2018). Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-3418_bnps12_COM_215906>
First published online: 2020
First print edition: 20200914



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