Graecolatry

English Alternative forms en Grecolatry Etymology en :af Graeco- -latry + 1 Pronunciation en ɒlətɹi 4 Noun - Excessive admiration for Ancient Greece. en 1986 Western Marxism 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWWvAAAAIAAJ Significantly, Hegel did not go as far as Constant in his farewell to ancient models. As Judith Shklar has shown, his vision of Greece, in the context of the passionate Graecolatry of German humanism around 1800, sided with [...] en 2007 Anthropos 295 https://books.google.com/books?id=MCkXAQAAMAAJ [...] conservative academics’ discomfort with cultural diversity stems from their socialization in “Graecolatry and Romanophilia.” He urges students of contemporary colonialism, and for that matter, capitalism, to learn more details of Classical colonialism, to understand that many practices (one could say praxis) including postcolonial stances can be discerned again and again during the past four thousand years. en 2015 M. Dietler A Mediterranean Colonial Encounter Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology 296 https://books.google.com/books?id=_RXbBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 For scholars steeped in the tradition of what Wohlleben (1992:175) has aptly called “Graecolatry” (that is, the adulation of the ancient Greeks and the “cultural capital” [Bourdieu 1984] accruing from a knowledge of the classics within academe), the superiority and attractiveness of Greek culture were self-evident. en 2021 Theorising Rome xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=DnMjEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR14 This notion is heavily influenced by “Graecolatry,” and scholars tended to believe that Rome had been conquered by Greece’s culture. Translations excessive admiration for Ancient Greece French: fr grécolâtrie f German: de Gräkolatrie f Portuguese: pt grecolatria f Spanish: es grecolatría f en Ancient Greece Greece