The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.
Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966-
2007
DF741 .H33 2007 (Mapit)
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The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.
Author
Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966-
ISBN
9780199572908 (pbk.)
0199572909 (pbk.)
9780199230389
0199230382
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
DF741 .H33 2007
Alternate Call Number
15.70
Dewey Decimal Classification
938
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Classical presences.
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Memories cast in marble
'Soldiers', the 'Priests', and the 'Hospitals for contagious diseases'
From western to indigenous hellenism
Archaeologist as shaman
Spartan visions
Other parthenon
Nostalgia for the whole
Nation in ruins?

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