Author: Thorsten Fögen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3110473038

This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Through a series of case studies covering a broad range of source material, it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, archaeologists, art historians and others.