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Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece

Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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By day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by night he socialised with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly writing for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both antebellum Athens in 1921 and the catastrophic collapse of Christian civilisation in western Anatolia in 1922. While there have been many accounts by refugees of the disastrous flight from Smyrna, few have been written from the perspective of the west side of the Aegean. The flood of a million refugees to Greece brought in its wake a military coup in Athens, the exile of the Greek royal family and the execution or imprisonment of politicians, whom Gilbert knew.Gilbert’s weekly letters to his mother in Rome reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery through the origins of western civilisation. As an archaeologist in Greece, he travelled through time seeing history repeat itself: Minoan Knossos, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Smyrna were all violently destroyed, but the survivors escaped to the new worlds of Mycenaean Greece, Renaissance Venice and modern Greece.At Smyrna in the twentieth century, history was written not only by the victors but was also recorded by the victims. At the same time, however, the twentieth century itself was so filled with reports of ethnic cleansings on such a scale that the reports brutalized the humanity of the supposedly civilized people reading about them, and the tragedy of Smyrna disappeared from public awareness between the cataclysmic upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-29
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt1 250 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArchaeological Lives
Antal sidor354
FörlagArchaeopress
ISBN9781789694529

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Foreword – Prof. T. H. B. Symons ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Timeline ; Maps ; Prologue: Odysseus vs. Achilles ; Chapter 1. Vengeance ; Chapter 2. Back in Time ; Chapter 3. Imposing Ruins ; Chapter 4. Marble Sepulchres ; Chapter 5. The Arms Merchant and the Secret Agent ; Chapter 6. Foreign Correspondent ; Chapter 7. The Oracle of Apollo and St Paul ; Chapter 8. The Renaissance at a Byzantine Outpost ; Chapter 9. Exposed ; Chapter 10. The Knights of Rhodes ; Chapter 11. The King of Kos ; Chapter 12. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea ; Chapter 13. Monasteries in the Air ; Chapter 14. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth on Crete ; Chapter 15. Inferno ; Chapter 16. Executions ; Chapter 17. The Pharaoh’s Curse ; Chapter 18. The Castles of the Giant Cyclopes ; Chapter 19. A Surviving Byzantine Republic ; Chapter 20. Karpathos: The Island of Poseidon ; Chapter 21. Paradise Lost ; Chapter 22. Mission to the Underworld: Spying for Mussolini ; Chapter 23. Lost Greek Empires ; Chapter 24. The Land of the Golden Fleece ; Epilogue ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Index

'This book stands as a major contribution – and an accessible one – to our understanding of the history of Greece in the years 1921-1924. In bringing Gilbert Bagnani back to life through his subject’s letters and through his own careful delving into primary sources, Ian Begg joins a group of scholars [who] have examined the personal lives, attitudes and idiosyncrasies of archaeologists, artists and performers, anthropologists, and historians as entryways into the discoveries they made, using their personalities as lenses for their scholarly or artistic methods.' – Robert Pounder (2021): Bryn Mawr Classical Review