The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966- author.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Greek.

Archaeology--Greece--History--19th century.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Greece--History--20th century.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an illustrated study examining how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination, and how, in return, national imagination has created and shaped classical antiquities and archaeological practice from the 19th century to the present.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Transliteration; 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 Western to Indigenous Hellenism: Antiquity, Archaeology, 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; References; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03647-0

1-281-15028-2

9786611150280

0-19-152812-9

1-4356-2199-9

OCLC:

437096346