The impact of classical Greece on European and national identities : proceedings of an international colloquium, held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens, 2-4 October 2000

These thirteen papers, from a colloquium held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens in 2000, examine European scholarship's fascination with classical Greece during the 19th and 20th centuries. Arranged geographically and then thematically, the papers discuss Greek attitudes towards classical archaeology and literature, Germany and Neoclassicism, classical Greece in Dutch literature and the influence of Greece on Dutch politics, the influence of Alexander the Great and the Persian Wars, the classical element in Victorian verse and interpretations of Homeric epic. Introduction / Pim Den Boer, Margriet Haagsma, Eric M. Moormann -- Neohumanism : Ideas, Identities, Identification / Pim Den Boer -- The Classics And The Movement For Greek Independence / Richard Clogg -- From Subservience To Ambivalence : Modern Greek Attitudes Toward The Classics / Paschalis M. Kitromilides -- Ideological Aspects Of Contemporary Archaeology In Greece / Kostas Kotsakis -- Philhellenism, Cosmopopolitanism, Nationalism [in Germany] / Glenn W. Most -- Arnold Böcklin And The End Of Neoclassicism / Suzanne Marchand -- A Nation Without A Country : Classical Greece In The Writings Of Jeanen Gallien (1773-1830) / Josine Blok -- Classicism And The Dutch State During The 19th Century / W.e. Krul -- La Tradition Gréco-romaine Sur Alexandre Le Grand Dans L'europe Moderne Et Contemporaine / Pierre Briant -- Xerxes Anno 1918 : The Persian Wars As L'art Pour L'art / H. Sancisi-weerdenburg And W.f.m. Henkelman -- The Classical Element In Victorian Verse / Richard Jenkyns -- Pompéi à La Grecque : A Roman City With A Greek Mask / Eric M. Moormann -- Imaginary Systems : Simone Weil And The Iliad / Kirsti K. Simonsuuri. Edited By Margriet Haagsma, Pim Den Boer, Eric M. Moormann. Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Introduction 8 Neohumanism: Ideas, Identities, Identification 12 GREECE 36 The Classics and the Movement for Greek Independence 36 From Subservience to Ambivalence. Modern Greek Attitudes toward the Classics 58 Ideological Aspects of Contemporary Archaeology in Greece 66 GERMANY 82 Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism 82 Arnold Böcklin and the End of Neoclassicism 104 THE NETHERLANDS 128 A Nation without a Country. Classical Greece in the writings of Jeanne Gallien (1773–1830) 128 Classicism and the Dutch State during the 19th century 148 EAST AND WEST 172 La tradition gréco-romaine sur Alexandre le Grand dans l’Europe moderne et contemporaine: quelques réflexions sur la permanence et l’adaptabilité des modèles interprétatifs 172 Xerxes anno 1918: the Persian Wars as l’art pour l’art 192 POETRY AND LITERATURE 226 The Classical Element in Victorian Verse 226 Pompéi à la Grecque: A Roman City with a Greek Mask 252 Imaginary Systems: Simone Weil and the Iliad. An Interpretation of a Greek Classic 278