Abstract

Antiquity was a modern invention. Medieval thinkers, for example, knew about ancient Greeks and Romans, but did not consider them fundamentally different. In their illuminated manuscripts they idealized Greco-Roman rulers as medieval kings. It was not until the period that we now call Early Modern (16th-18th centuries) that the distinct hiatus between “antiquity” and our purportedly “modern” world emerged in European thought. At first, this was a sad contrast between a prestigious past and an...

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