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Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution (1821 1832), for the first time linked to the cultural and intellectual history of Scotland, and particularly of Edinburgh, during roughly the same period. The book's two parts respectively contextualise the struggle for Greek national independence in space and time, and explore the engagement of Scots with Greece during the period, as well as parallels between the two nations. Throughout, the Greek Revolution and its Scottish supporters are viewed in relation to the Classical Tradition, or Classical Reception.This pioneering book makes a unique contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Greek Revolution during the anniversary decade, and raises issues of national identity and self-determination that have contemporary resonances in both Greece and Scotland, at opposite ends of Europe, today.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editors' Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Greek and Scottish Identities from the Enlightenment to the 'Age of Revolution', Roderick Beaton
PART I: EUROPEAN CONTEXTS
1. 'Unspoken Assumptions': Prophecies and Rumours in the Age of Greek Independence, Richard Clogg
2. Russia's Byzantine Heritage: Sixteenth-Century Myths and Eighteenth-Century Realities, Lucien Frary
3. Translating the French Revolution: People, Commitments, Texts, Method, Sanja Perovic
4. 'The Grand Sacrifice': Violence and Revolution in Adamantios Korais's Asma Polemistirion (1800), Simos Zenios
5. The Philiki Etaireia and Freemasonry: Secret Communication, the Public Sphere and Social Ideas, Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister
PART II: SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS
6. 'Finer than the Acropolis': Edinburgh, the Parthenon and the Scottish Genius, Matteo Zaccarini
7. 'A faithless truant to the classic page': Sir Walter Scott, Greek, Greece and the Greeks, Iain Gordon Brown
8. Through 'the Eye of an Experienced Traveller': Robert Wilson (1787-1871) in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
9. Thomas Gordon and the Ghost of Tripolitsa: A Study in Private Conflict and Public Relations, Alasdair C. Grant
10. George Finlay and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Scottish Enlightenment and Transnational Liberalism in Revolutionary Europe, Michalis Sotiropoulos
11. George Finlay, the Founding Figures of Greek National Historiography and Iconoclast Emperor Leon III: Byzantine Paratexts of Revolution, Niels Gaul
12. Edward Masson: Caledonian Witness to the Fortunes of Modern Greece, Vassiliki Kolocotroni
13. John Stuart Blackie and the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek, Gonda Van Steen
Afterword
14. Parallel Lives at the Limits of Europe: Enlightenment and Nation-Building in Scotland and Greece, Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Index
