At the start of the... «The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism»
innashpitzberg10 августа 2012At the start of the eighteenth century a great debate raged between the 'ancients' and 'moderns'. The 'ancients' held that the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome were the source of all standards and all literary ideals. The 'moderns' contended that new times required new standards and new forms of expression. What we should remember in this context is that this was a debate between men raised on Greek and Latin. Even those who belonged to the 'modern' camp, from whom emerged the leading figures of the Enlightenment, were steeped in the classics. All the participants to the debate were on familiar terms with Aristotle and Aristophanes, with Tacitus and Cicero.
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