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The Free and the Brave - American Philhellenes and the "Glorious Struggle of the Greeks" (1776-1866) (English, Greek, Paperback)
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The Free and the Brave - American Philhellenes and the "Glorious Struggle of the Greeks" (1776-1866) (English, Greek, Paperback)
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This bilingual catalogue (in English and Greek) accompanied an
exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of
the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the
relations and connections between Greece and the United States from
the American Revolution of 1776 to the Cretan revolt of 1866. The
hundred objects of the exhibition, fully illustrated in the
catalogue, include rare archival material, paintings, watercolors,
artworks, and several Philhellenic artifacts from the Gennadius
Library and other collections in Athens. The themes of the
exhibition, presented in the catalogue by curator Maria
Georgopoulou, delve on how the impact of the Enlightenment, the
poetry of Lord Byron, as well as the atrocities committed by the
Ottomans against the Greeks, motivated American Philhellenes to
join the revolutionaries, to collect money and supplies for
humanitarian aid to Greece, and even to adopt orphaned Greek
children. Once freed, Greece built its educational infrastructure
with the support of American missionaries, who set up successful
schools on Greek soil. Finally, the plight of Greek slaves fueled
abolitionist discourse in the U.S., as the story of Hiram Powers's
sculpture The Greek Slave amply demonstrates. Five original essays
by experts offer a wider scholarly perspective: Pericles S.
Vallianos speaks to the political affinities between the American
and the Greek Revolution due to the Enlightenment; Photini Tomai
hails the contributions of American Philhellenes to the Greek
cause; Curtis Runnels explores the response of the Americans to the
ordeals of the Greeks; Vangelis Karamanolakis studies the
contributions of American Protestants to the educational
development of Greece; and Peter Wirzbicki presents the impact of
the Greek War of Independence on the discourse of abolitionism.
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