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The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece

The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece
The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece
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
9780199230389
Oxford University Press
Hamilakis, Yannis
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Hamilakis, Yannis
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Hamilakis, Yannis (2007) The nation and its ruins: antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece (Classical Presences), Oxford, UK; New York, US. Oxford University Press, 374pp.

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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

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Published date: 2 August 2007

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Local EPrints ID: 47512
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/47512
ISBN: 9780199230389
PURE UUID: 8f3d9111-3b77-4893-a891-c6d246880a2d

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Date deposited: 31 Jul 2007
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 16:41

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Author: Yannis Hamilakis

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