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Grecophilia
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English
Alternative forms
en Graecophilia
Etymology
From en Greco philia.
Noun
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The love of the country, culture or people of Greece.
en Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio 1949–1967 53 On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”
en Castrum Peregrini 1951–1983 Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
en w:Robert Winter The Organic Principles in American Architectural Theory 1957 49 Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.
en Peter Demetz Marx, Engels, and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism 1967 121 Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel.
Related terms
en Grecophile
en Greece