Grecophilia

alternative Graecophilia

1. uncountableThe love of the country, culture or people of Greece.

   Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.

   1957, Robert Winter, The Organic Principles in American Architectural Theory, page 49

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   On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”

   1949–1967, Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, page 53

   Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

   1951–1983, Castrum Peregrini

   Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel.

   1967, Peter Demetz, Marx, Engels, and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism, page 121