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Building Modern Antiquity: Hymns and Laments for Athens

Building Modern Antiquity: Hymns and Laments for Athens

Giannakopoulou, Georgia

Paperback

Series: Visual Modernities

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1032053941
ISBN13: 9781032053943
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 of the veiled processes of the reconstruction of the past, thus shedding light on the abuse of antiquity for the celebration of European capitalist metropolitan modernity. From the glorious white-marble cityscape of the 19th century that aimed at re-enchanting metropolitan modernity, to the inglorious grey reinforced-concrete 21st-century metropolis, modern Athens exposes the battle between the modern and a modern image of antiquity: a false, socially constructed historiography born of the dialectics between the ancient and the modern, the new and the old, collective memory and collective forgetting. As such, The Building of a Modern Antiquity will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social and critical theory, urban studies, sociology of architecture, and visual sociology.

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