1st Edition
Building Modern Antiquity Hymns and Laments for Athens
By Georgia Giannakopoulou
Copyright 2025
214 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism. With a focus on modern antiquity as the hidden element of the dialectic between the past and the present, it suggests that the sociological study of one of the great European capital cities – a city not intended as a modern capital – and its architectural representations may expose part... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Whose Athens?
Chapter 1 – Modern Antiquity and the Celebration of the Past
Chapter 2 – Modern Antiquity and the Rejection of the Past
Chapter 3 – Modern Antiquity and the Annihilation of the Past
Chapter 4 – Building Modern Ancient Athens
Chapter 5 – Celebrating Athens
Chapter 6 – Lamenting Athens
Conclusion – Our Athens
Index
Biography
Georgia Giannakopoulou is Assistant Professor in Sociology at The American College of Greece. She specializes in classical sociological theory and the sociology of architecture. She is the co-editor (with Greame Gilloch) of The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby.
