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Alexis-Victor Joly
The Thermopylae
lithograph, illustration in
the album Vues de la Grèce Moderne, Paris 1824
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection [cat. no ΙΙ.8.Α.6]
36. Koutsogiannis 2020.
37. More broadly, regarding the relationship of the Greeks
and the Europeans concerning the Greek antiquities around the period of the Greek Revolution, see Lagogianni-Georgakarakos – Koutsogiannis 2019.
formed by the western European public as a whole about Greece,36 even if it arouses them – because of the influence of antiquity also – and their demand for freedom based on its history and culture.37
Antiquity worship in the late 18th and early 19th century certainly functioned as a prelude to the philhellenic phenomenon or, more correctly, to Philhellenism ante litteram.
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