The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece
Hamilakis, Yannis (2007) The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece, Oxford, UK; New York, US, Oxford University Press, 374pp. (Classical Presences).
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Description/Abstract
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.
Contents
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
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 9780199230389 (hardback) |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DF Greece C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > Archaeology |
| Item ID: | 47512 |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:29 |
| Contributors: | Hamilakis, Yannis (Author) |
| Date: | 2 August 2007 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/47512 |
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