Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 352 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0199230382
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9780199230389
Series Statement:
Classical presences
Content:
An innovative, extensively 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 nineteenth century to the present. - ;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 c
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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7. Nostalgia for the Whole: the Parthenon (or Elgin) Marbles8. The Nation in Ruins? Conclusions; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199230389
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Nation and its Ruins : Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece
Language:
English
