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The Nation and its Ruins

The Nation and its Ruins

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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 foundationof 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
376
Release Date:
2007-09-06
Publication Date:
2005-06-30
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199230382
ISBN13:
9780199230389
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Weight:
694 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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