While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus
are often considered to represent some of the highest values of
Western civilization-democracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, and
...rationalism-this much adored and heavily touristed heritage can
quickly become the stage for clashes over identity and
memory.
In Contested Antiquity , Esther Solomon curates
explorations of how those who safeguard cultural heritage are
confronted with the best ways to represent this heritage
responsibly. How should visitors be introduced to an ancient
Byzantine fortification that still holds the grim reminders of the
cruel prison it was used as until the 1980s? How can foreign
archaeological institutes engage with another nation's heritage in
a meaningful way? What role do locals have in determining what is
sacred, and can this sense of the sacred extend beyond buildings to
the surrounding land?
Together, the essays featured in Contested Antiquity
offer fresh insights into the ways ancient heritage is negotiated
for modern times.
Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and ...an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek thought and Christianity. It focuses on the key themes of the relationship of Platonism with early Christian writings and their presence in Norwid’s contemporary culture, the opposition of memory and history in 19th-c. literature and social life, and the image of the artist and its influence on social life in modern everyday. The book analyzes Norwid’s oeuvre in a broad comparison with representatives of French, German, and British literature and the humanities.
Greek Epigraphy and Religion explores the insights provided by inscribed texts into the religious practices of the ancient Greek world. The papers study material ranging geographically from Epiros to ...Egypt and chronologically from the Classical to the Roman period.
Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His
journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the
confectioner's trade and opened a business that still stands on
Main Street. ...Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor's
life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of
Greek migration to the Midwest.
Ann Flesor Beck's charming personal account recreates the
atmosphere of her grandfather's candy kitchen with its odors of
chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members.
"The Store" represented success while anchoring the business
district of Gus's chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré
experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and
outright threats by local townspeople, food-related
entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would
take over the business.
An engaging blend of family memoir and Midwest history,
Sweet Greeks tells how Greeks became candy makers to the
nation, one shop at a time.
The Greek Fire Santelli, Maureen Connors
2020, 2020-12-15
eBook
The Greek Fire examines the United States' early global influence as the fledgling nation that inserted itself in conflicts that were oceans away. Maureen Connors Santelli focuses on the American ...fascination with and involvement in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and 1830s. That nationalist movement incited an American philhellenic movement that pushed the borders of US interests into the eastern Mediterranean and infused a global perspective into domestic conversations concerning freedom and reform. Perceiving strong cultural, intellectual, and racial ties with Greece, American men and women identified Greece as the seedbed of American democracy and a crucial source of American values. From Maryland to Missouri and Maine to Georgia, grassroots organizations sent men, money, and supplies to aid the Greeks. Defending the modern Greeks from Turkish slavery and oppression was an issue on which northerners and southerners agreed. Philhellenes, often led by women, joined efforts with benevolence and missionary groups and together they promoted humanitarianism, education reform, and evangelism. Public pressure on the US Congress, however, did not result in intervention on behalf of the Greeks. Commercial interests convinced US officials, who wished to cultivate commercial ties with the Ottomans, to remain out of the conflict. The Greek Fire analyzes the role of Americans in the Greek Revolution and the aftermath of US involvement. In doing so, Santelli revises understandings of US involvement in foreign affairs, and she shows how diplomacy developed at the same time as Americans were learning what it meant to be a country, and what that country stood for.
The ancient Greeks provided the foundation for Western civilization. They made significant advances in science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and government. While many readers might have ...heard of Plato and Aristotle, however, or be familiar with the classic works of Greek tragedy, most people know significantly less about daily life in the ancient Greek world. This encyclopedia opens the world of the ancient Greeks, spanning Greek history from the Bronze Age through Roman times, with an emphasis on the Classical and Hellenistic Eras.The encyclopedia provides roughly 270 easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding everything from Greek high culture to daily life. These entries are grouped in topical sections on the arts, science and technology, politics and government, domestic life, and other subjects. Sidebars on particularly noteworthy people, places, and concepts provide related information, while primary documents allow readers to delve into the mindset and feelings of the ancient Greeks themselves. Extensive bibliographic references give curious readers direction for further research.
Through an extensive re-evaluation of existing evidence and the presentation of new avenues of research, the book shows that Greek and non-Greek states in the archaic and classical periods intervened ...greatly in foreign trade.
The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek ...authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the “textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.
The Olympic games is a striking testimony to the influence which ancient Greece still exercises over the modern world, and to the important place which athletics occupied in the life of the Greeks. ...Other nations may have given equal attention to the physical education of the young; other nations may have been equally fond of sport; other nations may have produced individual athletes, individual performances equal or superior to those of the Greeks, but nowhere can we find any parallel to the athletic ideal expressed in the art and literature of Greece, or to the extraordinary vitality of her athletic festivals. The growth of this ideal, and the history of the athletic festivals, are the subject of this book.
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