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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Like its French predecessor , the German Enlightenment was dogmatically anglophile But the English (&Scottish) authors in q. were huge hellenophiles...
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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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BAP has been around longer than we ever suspected
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