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The Classical Debt

Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

Johanna Hanink

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674971547

Publication: May 2017

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352 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

26 halftones

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  • HISTORY: Ancient: Greece
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economic Conditions
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE: Commentary & Opinion
  • HISTORY: Historiography

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  • About the Authors
  • Reviews
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Champions of the West
  • 2. How Athens Built Its Brand
  • 3. Colonizers of an Antique Land
  • 4. From State of Mind to Nation-State
  • 5. Greek Miracle 2.0
  • 6. Classical Debt in Crisis
  • 7. We Are All Greeks?
  • Epilogue: A Note for Educators
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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  • Listen to an interview with Johanna Hanink on the The Distant Pasts podcast
  • At the Greek News Agenda’s Rethinking Greece blog, read a conversation with Hanink about the notion of cultural indebtedness and its political character, classicists and their responsibility to dissuade people from “dwelling too much on Greek antiquity,” the imagined concept of the “original” Athenian democracy, and the long history of recorded disappointment in “modern” Greeks
  • At Aeon, read Hanink on the surprisingly ancient origins of Greek nostalgia for the greatness of its past
  • Read Hanink’s work at Eidolon, “an online journal for scholarly writing about Classics that isn’t formal scholarship”
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