The Nation and its Ruins

Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece

AvYannis Hamilakis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination. It also shows how, in return, national imagination has created and shaped classical antiquities and archaeological practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Yannis Hamilakis covers a diverse range of topics, including the role of antiquities in the foundation of the Greek state in the nineteenth century, the Elgin marbles controversy, the role of archaeology under dictatorial regimes, the use of antiquities in the detention camps of the Greek civil war, and the discovery of the so-called tomb of Philip of Macedonia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-08-02
Mått:145 x 222 x 26 mm
Vikt:577 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Classical Presences
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199230389
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for the Runciman Prize 2007 Winner of the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

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A Nation and Its Ruins provides an interesting set of case-studies that are drawn together to answer questions that apply to a broad range of archaeological, political, and cultural questions...only with archaeologists who work in Greece...but to a wide audience of archaeologists and anthropologists

Innehållsförteckning

1. Memories cast in marble: introduction ; 2. The 'soldiers' the 'priests'. and the 'hospitals for contagious diseases': the producers of archaeological matter-realities ; 3. From the Western to indigenous Hellenism: archaeology, antiquity, and the invention of modern Greece ; 4. The archaeologist as shaman the sensory national archaeology of Manolis Andronikos ; 5. Spartan visions: antiquity and the Metaxas dictatorship ; 6. The other Parthenon: antiquity and national memory at the concentration camp ; 7. Nostalgia for the whole: the Parthenon (or 'Elgin') marbles ; 8. The nation in ruins? Conclusions