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This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives.
List of contents
IntroductionChapter 1A Granular Approach to Ioannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) and Antiquities: Replication, Domesticity and Multivalence
Alexia Petsalis-DiomidisChapter 2"Viewing And Admiring" (Seyr Ü Temäa): Foreign Travellers and Antiquarians in Ottoman Documents, ca. 1790-1830
Edhem EldemChapter 3Entering the Peasant's Cottage: Vernacular Architecture of Ottoman Greece through the Eyes of Western and Local Travellers
Nikos MagouliotisChapter 4Ethiopians and Arrowheads: Marginal Perspectives on The Marathon
SorosEstelle StrazdinsChapter 5Collections Of Antiquities in Athens on the Eve of the Greek Revolution
Alessia ZambonChapter 6Marginal Voices, Ethnographic Judgement and Antiquarian Self-Definition in Edward Daniel Clarke's
TravelsJason KönigChapter 7Travelling In Europe, Exploring Greek Identity: Orientalism And "Occidentalism" in the Diary of Constantine Karatzas (1790-1792)
Charalampos MinaoglouChapter 8Perceptions of Ancient Remains in Ottoman Anatolia in The Mid-Nineteenth Century: Modernity, Local Society, And Diverse Ways of Being Greek
Ay¿e OzilChapter 9The Travel Journal of James Thoburn in The Ottoman Empire (1793-1798)
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About the author
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She researches classical material culture in the Greek world, and its reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The body and travel are major themes in her work. She searches out marginalised voices and explores intimate, small-scale encounters with objects. Her publications include
Drawing the Greek Vase (co-editor C. Meyer, Oxford University Press,2023),
The Classical Vase Transformed. Consumption, Reproduction, and Class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (with E. Hall, Oxford University Press, 2020), and
Truly beyond Wonders. Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Summary
This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives.
