Who saved the Parthenon?
Subtitle: a new history of the Acropolis before, during and after the Greek Revolution
By: William St Clair
Contributors: Open Book Publishers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 876
ISBN-13: 9781783744633; 9781783744640; 9781783744657; 9781800642997
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Antiquities; History; Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Description: "In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821 32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Title from content provider.

Open Access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers, viewed June 16, 2022).
Table of contents: title: Why another book? The place The people The encounter; title: Communities, real and imagined; title: The evidence; title: The new science and its enemies; title: Towards a practical theory of history; title: Romanticism and its rhetorics; title: The choices; title: The Siege of 1826 and 1827; title: The surrender; title: The last days of Ottoman Athens; title: The living; title: The dead; title: "The world had need of them"; title: The secret; title: The bargain; title: The silence; title: The stories; title: Which pasts, which futures?; title: Still a dark heritage; title: Whose Parthenon?; title: The Parthenon in our time; title: Heritage; title: Appendix A: The Firman obtained by Lord Elgin in 1801 and related documents; title: Appendix B: The Firman of 1821; title: Appendix C: The intercepted letters of the Ottoman military commander (Seraskier) Reşid Mehmed Pasha, often Known as Kiutahi or Reschid; title: Appendix D: The Firman of 1826 and other primary documents relating to the preservation of the ancient monuments of Athens issued by the Ottoman government; title: Appendix E: Primary contemporary documents recording the views of those who opposed the Greek Revolution; title: Appendix F: Four local descriptions of Athens from the long millennium.