Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature
Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature
Despite its eminence as a physical location and imaginary topos, the Acropolis appears very rarely in modern Greek poetry and fiction. When it does, local writers instead of glorifying it, like their foreign counterparts, present it as a haunting and menacing place, and sometimes even wish for its destruction. Thus they question its construction both by nationalism (in support of ethnic continuity) and by Western Hellenism (in support of cultural discontinuity).
Keywords: modern Greece, Hellenism, Acropolis, Parthenon, nation, topos, unbuilding
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