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Traditionally Hellenism is seen as the uncontroversial and beneficial influence of Greece upon later culture. Drawing upon new ideas from culture and gender theory, Jennifer Wallace rethinks the nature of classical influence and finds that the relationship between the modern west and Greece is one of anxiety, fascination and resistance.
Acknowledgements - List of Plates - List of Abbreviations - Explorations - 'Things Foreign'?: Classical Education and Knowledge - 'The Common-hall of the Ancients': Democracy, Dialogue and Drama - 'A Flowery Band': Pastoral, Polemic and Translation - 'Hope beyond Ourselves': Orientalising Greece - 'Grecian Grandeur': Authority, Tyranny and Fragmentation - 'We are all Greeks': National Identity and War - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index