Greece Without Columns: The Making Of The Modern Greeks
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Beneath the marble and myth of ancient Greece lies a living, breathing nation whose story is far more turbulent and complex than its classical ruins suggest — and David Holden's Greece without Columns: The Making of the Modern Greeks is the essential guide to understanding it. Moving beyond the familiar columns of the Parthenon and the polished narratives of antiquity, Holden chronicles the forging of the modern Greek identity through centuries of Byzantine rule, Ottoman occupation, revolutionary war, and 20th-century political upheaval. With the sharp, investigative eye of a seasoned foreign correspondent, he presents a vivid portrait of a people shaped by resilience, contradiction, and an almost mythic sense of destiny, set against the sun-bleached landscapes of the Aegean world. Holden writes with a rare combination of journalistic precision and literary elegance, dismantling romantic Western misconceptions about Greece while illuminating the deeply human forces — nationalism, religion, civil conflict, and cultural pride — that have sculpted the Greek character. His narrative argues persuasively that to truly understand Greece, one must look not to the philosophers of antiquity but to the fishermen, soldiers, and poets of the modern age. A work of formidable insight and enduring relevance, Greece without Columns leaves the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about one of history's most storied civilisations.
Author: David Holden
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Faber and Faber
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Beneath the marble and myth of ancient Greece lies a living, breathing nation whose story is far more turbulent and complex than its classical ruins suggest — and David Holden's Greece without Columns: The Making of the Modern Greeks is the essential guide to understanding it. Moving beyond the familiar columns of the Parthenon and the polished narratives of antiquity, Holden chronicles the forging of the modern Greek identity through centuries of Byzantine rule, Ottoman occupation, revolutionary war, and 20th-century political upheaval. With the sharp, investigative eye of a seasoned foreign correspondent, he presents a vivid portrait of a people shaped by resilience, contradiction, and an almost mythic sense of destiny, set against the sun-bleached landscapes of the Aegean world. Holden writes with a rare combination of journalistic precision and literary elegance, dismantling romantic Western misconceptions about Greece while illuminating the deeply human forces — nationalism, religion, civil conflict, and cultural pride — that have sculpted the Greek character. His narrative argues persuasively that to truly understand Greece, one must look not to the philosophers of antiquity but to the fishermen, soldiers, and poets of the modern age. A work of formidable insight and enduring relevance, Greece without Columns leaves the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about one of history's most storied civilisations.