Re: Classicists and dictatorship, Greece 1968

Dear John, Can you tell me what has happened to Bill Calder?
Many thanks,

Paul

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 5:56 AM John Lenz <[email protected]> wrote:

> This book has an excellent chapter about the Colonels' use of Classics in
> their own nationalist ideology; e.g. the were having political prisoners on
> Makronisos construct models of the Parthenon:  Yannis Hamilakis, *The
> Nation and Its Ruins:  Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in
> Greece *(Oxford, 2007, pb. 2009), Ch. 6.
>
> PS:  I don't want to start a discussion about this since Calder has had
> dementia for many years  but 'm proud to see my good old friend William
> Calder defending freedom and criticizing the far right  That wasn't his
> reputation personally but he was a man of principle; witness also his
> exposure of Werner Jaeger's connection with Nazism.
>