Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture

Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture
ISBN-10
019967275X
ISBN-13
9780199672752
Category
History
Pages
420
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Dimitris Tziovas, Dēmētrēs Tziovas

Description

By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined. Chapters explore both the role of antiquity in texts and established cultural practices and its popular, material and everyday uses, charting the transition in the study of the reception of antiquity in modern Greek culture from anemphasis on the continuity of the past to the recognition of its diversity.

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