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Italy's Lost Greece - Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology (Hardcover, New)
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Italy's Lost Greece - Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology (Hardcover, New)
Series: Greeks Overseas
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Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement
with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known
since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once
Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in
decline since its archaic golden age, and has long been relegated
to the margins of classical studies. Giovanna Ceserani's evocative
and nuanced analysis recovers its significance within the history
of classical archaeology. It was here that the Renaissance first
encountered an ancient Greek landscape, and during the "Hellenic
turn" of eighteenth-century Europe the temples of Paestum and the
painted vases of South Italy played major roles, but since then,
Magna Graecia--lying outside the national boundaries of modern
Greece, and sharing in the complicated regional dynamic of the
Italian Mezzogiorno--has fitted awkwardly into the commonly
accepted paradigms of Hellenism. The unfolding of this process
provides a unique insight into three developments: the humanist
investment in the ancient past, the evolution of modern Hellenism,
and the making of classical archaeology. Drawing on antiquarian and
archaeological writings, histories and travelogues about Magna
Graecia, and recent rewritings of the history and imagining of the
South, Italy's Lost Greece sheds new light on well known figures in
the history of archaeology while recovering forgotten ones. This is
an Italian story of European resonance, which transforms our
understanding of the transition from antiquarianism to archaeology,
of the relationship between nation-making and institution-building
in the study of the ancient past, and of the reconstruction of
classical Greece in the modern world.
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