Research Catalog

Title

Re-imagining the past : antiquity and modern Greek culture / edited by Dimitris Tziovas.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tziovas, Dēmētrēs

Description

xvii, 420 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Uniform Title

Classical presences.

Alternative Title

Reimagining the past

Subjects

• Greece
• To 146 B.C
• Civilization > Influence
• Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C > Influence > Congresses
• Conference proceedings
• History
• Greece > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "This book had its origins in a conference I organized at the University of Birmingham in June 2011 and represents a selection of the papers presented there"--Page v.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-400) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Decolonizing antiquity, heritage politics, and performing the past / Dimitris Tziovas -- Collecting the past : Greek antiquarians and archaeological knowledge in the Venetian empire / Anastasia Stouraiti -- Re-imagining Greek antiquity in 1821 : Shelley's Hellas in its literary and political context / Roderick Beaton -- A syncretic antiquity in translation : Polis and political modernity in conflict in nineteenth-century Greek Antigones / Alexandra Lianeri -- Antique names and self-identification : Hellenes, Graikoi, and Romaloi from late Byzantium to the Greek nation-state / Tassos A. Kaplanis -- The Christian Hellenism and linguistic archaism of Neofytos Doukas / Peter Mackridge -- The University of Athens and Greek antiquity (1837-1937) / Vangelis Karamanolakis -- Antiquity as Cold War propaganda: the political uses of the Classical past in post-Civil War Greece / Alexander Kazamias -- Dead archaeologists, buried gods : archaeology as an agent of modernity in Greece / Dimitris Plantzos -- Possessing antiquity : reconnecting to the past in the Greek present / Eleana Yalouri -- Postcards from Metaxas' Greece : the uses of Classical antiquity in tourism photography / Katerina Zacharia -- Between texts and contexts : moderns against ancients in the reception of ancient tragedy in Greece (1900-1933) / Eleni Papazoglou -- Sin and the city : a mid-fifteenth-century lament for the fall of Athens to the "Persians" / Gonda van Steen -- Lucretian moments in modern Greek poetry / David Ricks -- Rethinking the Greek legacy : Dorians in modern Greek fiction / Gunnar de Boel -- Yannis Ritsos, Marxist dialectics, and the re-imagining of Ancient Greece / Marinos Pourgouris -- The wound of history : Ritsos and the reception of Philoctetes / Dimitris Tziovas -- Plato, Seferis and Heaney : poetry as redress / Rowena Fowler -- Exceptionalities and paradigms : ancient and modern Greek cultures in Classical reception research / Lorna Hardwick.

Call Number

JFD 15-3226

ISBN

• 019967275X
• 9780199672752

LCCN

60001927036

OCLC

860825792

Title

Re-imagining the past : antiquity and modern Greek culture / edited by Dimitris Tziovas.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classical presences

Classical presences.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-400) and index.

Chronological Term

To 146 B.C.

Added Author

Tziovas, Dēmētrēs, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

60001927036

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3226