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The Nation And Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece
Author(s): Yannis Hamilakis (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: 4 Oct. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199572909
- ISBN-13: 9780199572908
Book Description
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 dictorial 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
adds a distinctive new voice and vision ― Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
About the Author
Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
