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Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece - Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924 (Hardcover)
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Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece - Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924 (Hardcover)
Series: Archaeological Lives
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By day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by
night he socialised with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly
writing for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both
antebellum Athens in 1921 and the catastrophic collapse of
Christian civilisation in western Anatolia in 1922. While there
have been many accounts by refugees of the disastrous flight from
Smyrna, few have been written from the perspective of the west side
of the Aegean. The flood of a million refugees to Greece brought in
its wake a military coup in Athens, the exile of the Greek royal
family and the execution or imprisonment of politicians, whom
Gilbert knew. Gilbert’s weekly letters to his mother in Rome
reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery through
the origins of western civilisation. As an archaeologist in Greece,
he travelled through time seeing history repeat itself: Minoan
Knossos, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Smyrna were all
violently destroyed, but the survivors escaped to the new worlds of
Mycenaean Greece, Renaissance Venice and modern Greece. At Smyrna
in the twentieth century, history was written not only by the
victors but was also recorded by the victims. At the same time,
however, the twentieth century itself was so filled with reports of
ethnic cleansings on such a scale that the reports brutalized the
humanity of the supposedly civilized people reading about them, and
the tragedy of Smyrna disappeared from public awareness between the
cataclysmic upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.
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