The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece

ISBN-13: 9780199230389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007

Yannis Hamilakis

Opis

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.

Recenzje

[T]his work will [be] resonant not only with archaeologists who work in Greece ...but to a wider audience of archaeologists and anthropologists who deal with similar issues in other countries of the world every day... [H]is discussion of the Elgin marble debate in Chapter 7 provides one of best discussions of the topic available, and I will be using it to introduce my students to some of these crucial issues.

O autorze

Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.