Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts,…
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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. This book sets out to understand the modern Greeks on their own terms.How did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place, and then define an identity for themselves that is at once Greek and modern? Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern nation.
This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and perhaps more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last 300 years, of building a modern nation on, sometimes literally, the ruins of a vanished civilisation. It is not only a history of events and high politics, it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people and of ideas.
Modern Greece
A Taste of Greece
Birth of a Nation
Founding of a Nation
Soul of a Nation
Anatomy of a Nation
Fabric of a Nation
A Nation of Bookworms?
A Biography of the Pixel
Idea of a Southern Nation
Isles of Greece