| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Classical presences
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Classical presences.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Greek.
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National characteristics, Greek. |
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Greece -- Antiquities.
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Greece. |
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Antiquities. |
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Archaeology -- Greece -- History -- 19th century.
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Archaeology. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Greece -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966- Nation and its ruins. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199230389 0199230382 (DLC) 2007013670 (OCoLC)122424890 |
| ISBN |
9781435621992 (electronic book) |
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1435621999 (electronic book) |
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9780191528125 (electronic book) |
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0191528129 (electronic book) |
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9780199230389 |
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0199230382 |
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