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"In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821 32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times." -- Publisher's description.

Parthenon (Athens, Greece). --- Parthenon (Athens, Greece)

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Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly 'the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments - a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise - which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire. The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society.

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"Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly 'the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments - a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise - which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire. The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society."--

Parthenon (Athens, Greece) in literature. --- Athens (Greece) --- Antiquities.

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""Nous voici retournés au coeur des contradictions qui rendent cette histoire décisive. Parce que les Grecs se sont posé les questions que nous n'avons cessé de retrouver depuis. Parce qu'ils ont consigné avec une clarté sans pareille les différentes réponses possibles. Qu'ils ont analysé avec minutie les tenants et aboutissants des cas de conscience dont seraient tissés pour toujours nos débats politiques. Ils ont eu le génie de donner aux événements de leur histoire une portée universelle en dégageant ce qui relève, dans leurs causes, des permanences de la nature humaine ; ce qui tient, dans leurs conséquences, des lois de la politique". Parcourant le Ve siècle grec, des origines des guerres médiques à la fin de la guerre du Péloponnèse, Michel De Jaeghere ne se contente pas ici de faire le récit frémissant de cet apogée de la civilisation hellénique. Il a suivi à la trace les débats, les dilemmes, les conflits inhérents à la naissance du patriotisme, de sa dilatation dans le panhellénisme à sa caricature en volonté de puissance, et de l'échec tragique auquel la tentation de l'impérialisme avait conduit Athènes, aux crises de sa démocratie. Fidèle à la méthode inaugurée dans son Cabinet des antiques (Les Belles Lettres), il prend appui sur Hérodote, Thucydide, Isocrate, Platon, quelques autres, pour faire dialoguer les textes antiques avec notre propre histoire et tenter de dégager, dans l'expérience des Grecs, ce qu'ils ont à nous dire d'essentiel, de vital sur nous-mêmes. L'histoire du grand siècle d'Athènes en sort comme rajeunie."

Patriotisme. --- Patriotisme --- Philosophie politique. --- Patriotism --- Athens (Greece) --- Greece --- Philosophie politique

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This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man regularly called upon by his city-state to serve in the battle lines and perform his citizen duty, the most common military experience of the hoplite was one of transition -- he was departing to or returning from war on a regular basis, especially during extended periods of conflict. Scholarship has focused primarily on the experience of the hoplite after his return, with a special emphasis on his susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but the moments of transition themselves have yet to be explored in detail. Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions from two sides: from within the domestic environment as a member of an oikos , and from within the military environment as a member of the army. This analysis presents a new template for each and effectively maps the experience of the hoplite as he moves between his domestic and military duties. This allows us to reconstruct the effects of war more fully and to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual.

Soldiers --- Homecoming --- History --- Greece --- Athens (Greece) --- History, Military --- History, Military.