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      Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity

      Hellenisms

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      Hellenisms book

      Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity
      Edited ByKaterina Zacharia
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 28 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315253442
      Pages 490
      eBook ISBN 9781315253442
      Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Zacharia, K. (Ed.). (2008). Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315253442

      ABSTRACT

      This volume casts a fresh look at the multifaceted expressions of diachronic Hellenisms. A distinguished group of historians, classicists, anthropologists, ethnographers, cultural studies, and comparative literature scholars contribute essays exploring the variegated mantles of Greek ethnicity, and the legacy of Greek culture for the ancient and modern Greeks in the homeland and the diaspora, as well as for the ancient Romans and the modern Europeans. Given the scarcity of books on diachronic Hellenism in the English-speaking world, the publication of this volume represents nothing less than a breakthrough. The book provides a valuable forum to reflect on Hellenism, and is certain to generate further academic interest in the topic. The specific contribution of this volume lies in the fact that it problematizes the fluidity of Hellenism and offers a much-needed public dialogue between disparate viewpoints, in the process making a case for the existence and viability of such a polyphony. The chapters in this volume offer a reorientation of the study of Hellenism away from a binary perception to approaches giving priority to fluidity, hybridity, and multi-vocality. The volume also deals with issues of recycling tradition, cultural category, and perceptions of ethnicity. Topics explored range from European Philhellenism to Hellenic Hellenism, from the Athens 2004 Olympics to Greek cinema, from a psychoanalytical engagement with anthropological material to a subtle ethnographic analysis of Greek-American women's material culture. The readership envisaged is both academic and non-specialist; with this aim in mind, all quotations from ancient and modern sources in foreign languages have been translated into English.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Katerina Zacharia Introduction

      part |2 pages

      Part I: Hellenic Culture and Identity from Antiquity to Byzantium

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Katerina Zacharia Herodotus’ Four Markers of Greek Identity

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Simon Hornblower Greek Identity in the Archaic and Classical Periods

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Stanley Burstein Greek Identity in the Hellenistic Period

      chapter 4|48 pages

      Ronald Mellor Graecia Capta: The Confrontation between Greek and Roman Identity

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Claudia Rapp Hellenic Identity, Romanitas, and Christianity in Byzantium

      part |2 pages

      Part II: Cultural Legacies: Traveling Hellenisms: Mediterranean Antiquity, European Legacies, and Modern Greece

      chapter 6|18 pages

      Glenn Most Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism

      chapter 7|32 pages

      Olga Augustinos Philhellenic Promises and Hellenic Visions: Korais and the Discourses of the Enlightenment

      chapter 8|36 pages

      Antonis Liakos Hellenism and the Making of Modern Greece: Time, Language, Space

      chapter 9|34 pages

      Dimitris Livanios The Quest for Hellenism: Religion, Nationalism, and Collective Identities in Greece, 1453–1913

      part |2 pages

      Part III: Ethnic Identity: Places, Contexts, Movement Facets of Hellenism: Hellas, Europe, Modern Greece, Diaspora

      chapter 10|24 pages

      Charles Stewart Dreams of Treasure: Temporality, Historicization, and the Unconscious

      chapter 11|24 pages

      Peter Mackridge Cultural Difference as National Identity in Modern Greece

      chapter 12|34 pages

      Katerina Zacharia “Reel” Hellenisms: Perceptions of Greece in Greek Cinema

      chapter 13|24 pages

      Yiorgos Anagnostou Against Cultural Loss: Immigration, Life History, and the Enduring “Vernacular”

      chapter 14|20 pages

      Artemis Leontis Greek-American Identity: What Women’s Handwork Tells Us

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