In fact, to an almost-embarrassing extent, late-18th c German philhellenism was a result of mid-18th c German Enlightenment propagandahttps://twitter.com/QuasLacrimas/status/1046981960957157378 …
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So you have the wacky situation of middlebrow German zines “educating” their readers by aping French zines that quoted, idk Shaftesbury and Adam Ferguson and so on, about wonders of ancient literature - emotional about re-reading Homer, excited to be “in on” Longinus
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Result: while the explosion of media in UK leads to complaints that no one has time for classics any more, in DE it memes Germans into a century of philhellenism (by recycling earlier UK material)
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