Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities

Sofia Voutsaki is Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK.

List of Figures



List of Contributors



Editors’ Preface



List of Abbreviations



Introduction: Ancient monuments and modern identities



Sofia Voutsaki



1. The provenance of Greek painted vases: disciplinary debates and modern identities in the early 19th century



Giovanna Ceserani



2. Travellers and ruins in the Spartan landscape: a ghost story



Paraskevas Matalas



3. The reception of J.J. Winckelmann by Greek scholarship during the formative stage of the Modern Greek state (1832–1862)

Irene Fatsea



4. The legal protection of antiquities in Greece and national identity

Daphne Voudouri



5. Displaying archaeology - exhibiting ideology in 19th and early 20th century Greek museums



Andromache Gazi



6. Archaeology and politics: The Greek-German Olympia excavations treaty, 1869-1875

Thanassis N. Bohotis



7. The Hellenization of the prehistoric past: the search for Greek identity in the work of Christos Tsountas



Sofia Voutsaki



8. 'The stamp of national life': plaster casts and their uses in Greece at the end of the 19th century

Alexandra Alexandri



9. Beyond the debt to Antiquity: constructing a national architecture for Modern Greece



Eleni Bastéa



10. Are histories of archaeology good to think with?

Michael Fotiadis



11. Why should the state protect the cultural heritage? The answer offered by Greek law



Vassilis Voutsakis



Index