Apotheosis of the North [online] : The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800) / Edited by: Bernd Roling, Bernhard Schirg, Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus

Frontmatter Foreword Contents Introduction Phoenix going bananas. The swedish appropriation of a classical myth, and its demise in botanical scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus) Olof rudbeck the younger’s oförgripelige tankar om amerikanska språket Petrus lagerlöf instructing on gothicism Language comparison before comparative linguistics: Theories of language change and classification in olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica »Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor«. Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte She »lät illa i sömnen«!? How Eric Julius Biörner can still be read with profit – and even delight Ablaze in the Northern Sky Tears of Amber and the relocation of ovidian myth to the Baltic Sea Goths, gauls and franks in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden The Fauna of fallen Babylon – Carl Aurivillius on the animals in Isaiah 13:21 and the Task of Bible Hermeneutics Rudbeck and oriental Studies: How sanscrit studies transformed national myth Index

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