Perceptions of the past in the Turkish Republic
Subtitle: Classical and Byzantine periods
By: edited by Scott Redford and Nina Ergin
Series: Ancient Near Eastern studies -- Supplement -- 31; Ancient Near Eastern studies -- 31.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789042922648
Subjects: Ancient Art; Antiquities; Byzantine Antiquities; Civilization; Congresses; Archaeologists; Archaeology; Biography; History
Notes: Proceedings from the international and first annual RCAC conference (organized by Koc̜ University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) in Istanbul, in December 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Scott Redford, -- Nina Ergin; title: Archeology and the perception of Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras in Early Republican Turkey  -- Murat Ergin; title: Constructing the past in Ankara : from Augustus to Atatürk  -- Suna Güven; title: From the Lofty Halls of Academia to the Dusty Hills of Anatolia : Howard Crosby Butler and the first Sardis Expedition through peace and war, 1909-1926  -- Fikret K. Yegül; title: Guillaume de Jerphanion (1877-1948) as Jesuit and scholar in Turkey  -- Vincenzo Ruggieri; title: Louis Robert (1904-1985) : a historian-epigrapher discovering Anatolia  -- Pierre Chuvin -- The; title: archaeology of the Turkish Republic and the School of Ekrem Akurgal  -- A. Coşkun Özgünel; title: Arif Müfid Mansel : a pioneer of Turkish archaeology  -- Haluk Abbasoğlu -- The; title: Museum in Bergama as an example of Turkish politics of culture and of German-Turkish collaboration  -- Wolfgang Radt -- The; title: Russian archaeological institute of Constantinople (1894-1914) : from its establishment until today  -- Konstantinos Papoulidis -- The; title: future of classical archaeology in Turkey  -- Kutalmiş Görkay; title: Byzantine art history in modern Turkey  -- Engin Akrürek -- Afterword :; title: Heritage, nationalism and archaeology in the Republic of Turkey -- David Shankland.