The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only one ideological dimension of the extraordinarily intricate politics of the European avant-garde s response to Greek antiquity a dimension that has been overrated in current research on the subject. "Greek Mythologies" interrogates this one-sided methodological approach by exploring in a systematic and cross-disciplinary manner the complex, at times contradictory, responses to ancient Greece in Greek and broader Western European modernism. In this...
The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only o...