The Nation and its Ruins

An innovative, extensively illustrated study examining how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination, and how, in return, national imagination has created and shaped classical antiquities and archaeological practice from the nineteenth century to the present. - ;This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination. It also shows how, in return, national imagination has created and shaped classical antiquities and archaeological practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Yannis Hamilakis covers a diverse range of topics, including the role of antiquities in the foundation of the Greek. state in the nineteenth century, the Elgin marbles controversy, the role of archaeology under dictatorial regimes, the use of antiquities in the detention camps of the Greek civil war, and the discovery of the so-called tomb of Philip of Macedonia. - ;compelling - Konstantinos Chilidis, European Journal of Archeology 2007, 10:2-3;he Nation and its Ruins deserves our close attention - Konstantinos Chilidis, European Journal of Archeology 2007, 10:2-3;This book is to be welcome for the solid grounding it provides in facts that tend to be either ignored or taken for granted alike by professional archaeologists, by popularizers, and by the millions who visit archaeological sites in Greece each year...Hamilakis sets out to reintegrate the two components of his book's title, The Nation and its Ruins , and he succeeds impressively. - R. Beaton, Times Literary Supplement;an excellent contribution... thoretically informed [and]... a great read. - Madeleine Hummer, Antiquity;...theoretically informed, yet clearly written; it is an important contribution. - David Sutton, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University;... intellectually engaging, capti