The Nation and its Ruins : Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece Hardback
by Yannis (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Southampton) Hamilakis
Part of the Classical Presences series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, numerous halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780199230389
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, numerous halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199230389
