Who saved the Parthenon? : a new history of the Acropolis before, during and after the Greek Revolution

1. Verfasser: Saint Clair, William , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: [Cambridge, UK]: Open Book Publishers, [2022]
Umfang/Format: xviii, 876 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Athens (Greece) > Antiquities.
Greece > History > War of Independence, 1821-1829.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Why another book? The place The people The encounter
  • Communities, real and imagined
  • The evidence
  • The new science and its enemies
  • Towards a practical theory of history
  • Romanticism and its rhetorics
  • The choices
  • The Siege of 1826 and 1827
  • The surrender
  • The last days of Ottoman Athens
  • The living
  • The dead
  • "The world had need of them"
  • The secret
  • The bargain
  • The silence
  • The stories
  • Which pasts, which futures?
  • Still a dark heritage
  • Whose Parthenon?
  • The Parthenon in our time
  • Heritage
  • Appendix A: The Firman obtained by Lord Elgin in 1801 and related documents
  • Appendix B: The Firman of 1821
  • Appendix C: The intercepted letters of the Ottoman military commander (Seraskier) Reşid Mehmed Pasha, often Known as Kiutahi or Reschid
  • Appendix D: The Firman of 1826 and other primary documents relating to the preservation of the ancient monuments of Athens issued by the Ottoman government
  • Appendix E: Primary contemporary documents recording the views of those who opposed the Greek Revolution
  • Appendix F: Four local descriptions of Athens from the long millennium.

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