Constructions Of Greek Past

Author : Hero Hokwerda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004495463

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Constructions of Greek Past by Hero Hokwerda Pdf

In May 1999, a second conference of Hellenists (of all periods and subject areas) from the Dutch-speaking countries was organized in Groningen. The theme of this second conference was ‘Constructions of Greek Past. Identity and Historical Consciousness from Antiquity to the Present.’ The conference theme was described as follows: When seeking to establish its own identity, a culture (country, people, nation) readily resorts to its own history, which it uses either as an example or as something to react against. In recent years there has been a growing awareness that this process often reveals more about a culture in the present day than the historical era to which it harks back: its own identity, and thus its own history, are ‘constructed’ in this way. The constructional approach is usually applied to the birth of new nation states and the development of their national ideologies, particularly in the nineteenth century. But it can be applied more broadly too. Greek culture is an excellent subject area for studying this phenomenon even further back in history, precisely because its history is so long and included several ‘Golden Ages’ to which later periods could (and can) hark back. Greek culture still presents itself as a product of Ancient Greek and/or Byzantine culture. However, the problem of continuity in Greek culture has frequently manifested itself, particularly during periods of radical political, ideological or demographic change. The Homeric influence on the Mycenaean world is therefore also an aspect of this phenomenon. The Homeric world served as an example for later periods, as did the Attic period for the Greeks in the Hellenistic-Roman age. The tensions between the Hellenistic and Roman character of the Greek world had a strong influence on the shaping of the Greek identity during late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Those tensions still exist today (ellenismós/ellenikótita v. romiosyni). The theme was designed to bring together Hellenists of all periods and disciplines (literature, language, history, archaeology, ecclesiastical history, sociology etc.) relating to the Greek world. The colloquium sessions were held in Dutch, but the papers are published in English (two in French).

Author : Vaia Touna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004348615

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Fabrications of the Greek Past: Religion, Tradition, and the Making of Modern Identities by Vaia Touna Pdf

In Fabrications of the Greek Past, Vaia Touna demonstrates that present-day meanings of historical artifacts are created by social actors through their ever-contemporary acts of identification, such as their interpretations, categorizations, representations, and classifications.

Author : Tjeerd van Andel,Curtis Runnels
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804766777

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Beyond the Acropolis by Tjeerd van Andel,Curtis Runnels Pdf

Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use.

Author : Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780876615416

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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy by Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter Pdf

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Author : David Konstan,Suzanne Saïd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030167075

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Greeks on Greekness by David Konstan,Suzanne Saïd Pdf

Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves..., they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service". While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long involvement with its own tradition, which was continually being remodelled and readapted. It was an age that was intensely self-conscious about its relation to history, a consciousness that manifested itself not only in Attic purism and a reverence for antique literary models but also in ethnic identities, educational and religious institutions, and political interactions with - and even among - the Romans. In this volume, which represents a selection of the papers presented at the colloquium, "Greeks on Greekness: The Construction and Uses of the Greek Past among Greeks under the Roman Empire," held at the Center for Hellenic Studies on 25-28 August 2001, seven scholars explore some of the forms that this preoccupation with the Greek past assumed under Roman rule. Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer a kaleidoscopic view of how Greeks under the Roman Empire related to their past, indicating the multiple ways in which the classical tradition was problematised, adapted, transformed, and at times rejected. They thus provide a vivid image of a lived relation to tradition, one that was inventive rather than conservative and self-conscious rather than passive. The Greeks under Rome played with their heritage, as they played at being and not being the Greeks they continually studied and remembered.

Author : Keith S. Brown,Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0739103849

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The Usable Past by Keith S. Brown,Yannis Hamilakis Pdf

In this volume, scholars of history, archaeology and anthropology explore the located and contextual nature of historical narratives, analysing contested historical rituals, building style, and traditions, .

Author : Alexander Tzonis,Alcestis P. Rodi
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861893795

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Greece by Alexander Tzonis,Alcestis P. Rodi Pdf

The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years. The book explores the buildings and architects of modern Greece, ranging from nineteenth-century neoclassical edifices to minimalist contemporary works and urban renewal projects. The ideas driving the creation of these buildings are given full attention, as the authors examine the influence of the rise of Modernism in the arts and the characteristics of regional styles, while also considering the reasons behind the bland, functional structures that have dominated Greek cityscapes since World War II. Greecesituates this design survey within the nation’s tumultuous cultural and political history, including the two world wars, a military dictatorship, civil war, and the consumerist boom of the 1990s. A penetrating and thorough study, Greece offers a compelling account of modern Greek architecture that will be invaluable for all scholars of design and European history.

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472087797

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Constructions of the Classical Body by James I. Porter Pdf

Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

Author : Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou,Professor Michael Silk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409480426

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Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present by Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou,Professor Michael Silk Pdf

Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.

Author : Alexandra Georgakopoulou,M. S. Silk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0754664376

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Standard Languages and Language Standards by Alexandra Georgakopoulou,M. S. Silk Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value, processes of establishing a standard and practices and ideologies of standardization, over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. With a wide range of topics, from contested educational initiatives to competing understandings of the Greek language, from the Hellenistic koine to cyber-Greek, the volume provides a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of Greek and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.

Author : David Ricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317024736

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The Making of Modern Greece by David Ricks Pdf

Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century.

Author : Nino Luraghi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521349532

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The Ancient Messenians by Nino Luraghi Pdf

Early in the archaic period of Greek history, Messenia was annexed and partially settled by its powerful neighbour, Sparta. Achieving independence in the fourth century BC, the inhabitants of Messenia set about trying to forge an identity for themselves separate from their previous identity as Spartan subjects, refunctionalising or simply erasing their Spartan heritage. Professor Luraghi provides a thorough examination of the history of Messenian identity and consequently addresses a range of questions and issues whose interest and importance have only been widely recognised by ancient historians during the last decade. By a detailed scrutiny of the ancient written sources and the archaeological evidence, the book reconstructs how the Messenians perceived and constructed their own ethnicity at different points in time, by applying to Messenian ethnicity insights developed by anthropologists and early medieval historians.

Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015049890984

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History of Greece, and of the Greek People by Victor Duruy Pdf

Author : M. Erica Couto-Ferreira,Lorenzo Verderame
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527514348

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Cultural Constructions of the Uterus in Pre-modern Societies, Past and Present by M. Erica Couto-Ferreira,Lorenzo Verderame Pdf

This volume addresses a set of historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through the dissection of both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography, and representation. It transcends Eurocentric models of understanding and representing the female body by bringing into the discussion a number of case studies taken from a larger number of cultural and social historical realities, including the Mediterranean, the Ancient Near East, Pre-Columbian America, East Asia, and Medieval Europe, that are explored from the methodological perspectives offered by a wide range of disciplines and epistemologies. Because of its intimate, indissoluble relation to the experience of being a woman, and because of its hiddenness within the body and darkness; its communication with the outside world and its accessibility through the vagina; its capacity to contain and give shelter; to engender and procreate; to expulse and give birth to both fully formed and truncated, deformed beings; and its potential to go in and out, the womb offers a wealth of possibilities to conceptualise the world.

Author : Danielle Allen,Paul Christesen,Paul Millett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190649906

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How to Do Things with History by Danielle Allen,Paul Christesen,Paul Millett Pdf

How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past.