Monthly Archives: January 2018

Anti-Hellenism (2)

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Anti-Hellenism is a century-old taboo topic that scholars either avoid completely or treat as an irregular version of Philhellenism. Views and actions targeting the Greeks are folded into Philhellenism and marginalized as its aberrations. That is how anti-Hellenism is ignored … Continue reading →

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Anti-Hellenism (1)

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Why don’t we study anti-Hellenism? This question came again to my mind as I finished reading an excellent review essay by the Cambridge historian of classical reception Dr. Helen Roche, “The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism” (2017), which surveys studies published … Continue reading →

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Greek women poets on Greek myth

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

A new bilingual poetry collection, Phoebe Giannisi’s Homerica (2017), which has just appeared, brings to mind the growing number of Greek women writers of the poetic generation of the 2000s who have been publishing book-length cycles that draw explicitly and … Continue reading →

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Is serialism a classicism?

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Why would classical art bring to mind twelve-tone composition? Writing to friends after a six-day, two-concert visit to London in May 1933, Anton Webern exclaimed: “I also saw the Parthenon Frieze! I stood there for an hour and a half. … Continue reading →

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