Publisher description for The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.
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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 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.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
National characteristics, Greek.
Greece -- Antiquities.
Archaeology -- Greece -- History -- 19th century.
Archaeology -- Greece -- History -- 20th century.