| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Classical Presences |
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Classical presences
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| Contents |
Introduction : Decolonizing antiquity, heritage politics, and performing the past / Dimitris Tziovas -- Collecting the past : Greek antiquarians and archaeological knowledge in the Venetian empire / Anastasia Stouraiti -- Re-imagining Greek antiquity in 1821 : Shelley's Hellas in its literary and political context / Roderick Beaton -- A syncretic antiquity in translation : Polis and political modernity in conflict in nineteenth-century Greek Antigones / Alexandra Lianeri -- Antique names and self-identification : Hellenes, Graikoi, and Romaloi from late Byzantium to the Greek nation-state / Tassos A. Kaplanis -- The Christian Hellenism and linguistic archaism of Neofytos Doukas / Peter Mackridge -- The University of Athens and Greek antiquity (1837-1937) / Vangelis Karamanolakis -- Antiquity as Cold War propaganda: the political uses of the Classical past in post-Civil War Greece / Alexander Kazamias -- Dead archaeologists, buried gods : archaeology as an agent of modernity in Greece / Dimitris Plantzos -- Possessing antiquity : reconnecting to the past in the Greek present / Eleana Yalouri -- Postcards from Metaxas' Greece : the uses of Classical antiquity in tourism photography / Katerina Zacharia -- Between texts and contexts : moderns against ancients in the reception of ancient tragedy in Greece (1900-1933) / Eleni Papazoglou -- Sin and the city : a mid-fifteenth-century lament for the fall of Athens to the "Persians" / Gonda van Steen -- Lucretian moments in modern Greek poetry / David Ricks -- Rethinking the Greek legacy : Dorians in modern Greek fiction / Gunnar de Boel -- Yannis Ritsos, Marxist dialectics, and the re-imagining of Ancient Greece / Marinos Pourgouris -- The wound of history : Ritsos and the reception of Philoctetes / Dimitris Tziovas -- Plato, Seferis and Heaney : poetry as redress / Rowena Fowler -- Exceptionalities and paradigms : ancient and modern Greek cultures in Classical reception research / Lorna Hardwick |
| Summary |
Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece's modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece in Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined. For the contributors, re-imagining the past is an opportunity to critically examine and engage imaginatively with various approaches. Chapters explore both the role of antiquity in texts and established cultural practices and its popular, material and everyday uses, charting the transition in the study of the reception of antiquity in modern Greek culture from an emphasis on the continuity of the past to the recognition of its diversity. Incorporating a number of chapters which adopt a comparative perspective, the volume re-imagines Greek antiquity and invites the reader to look at the different uses and articulations of the past both in and outside Greece, ranging from literature to education, and from politics to photography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Civilization
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Greece.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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Greece -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057040
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Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tziovas, Dēmētrēs, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191653384 |
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0191653381 |
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9780191774324 |
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0191774324 |
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