Philhellenism and Constitutionalism: The First Greek Constitutions

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism: Aspects of a Transcultural Movement 1
5. Part I: Ancient Philhellenism
6. Shaping the (Hi)story of Innovation: Livius Andronicus as the First Poet of Latin Literature 9
7. Ηellenism in Horace’s Literary Criticism 23
8. ‘Inappropriate’ Philhellenism in Roman Satire 51
9. Philhellenism, Patronage and Poetics in Martial 77
10. Enthusiasm and Mimesis in Longinus’ Concept of the Sublime 105
11. Part II: Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution
12. Hellenism and Philhellenism in British Experience 125
13. Could Leo Become Leonidas Again? The German Philhellene Wilhelm Müller and his Ambivalent Reception of Lord Byron 141
14. Philhellenism as an Exploration of Identity and Alterity in the Literary Tradition of Travels to the East in the 19th century 155
15. Adamantios Korais (Smyrna 1748–Paris 1833), philhellène à sa manière 177
16. Europeans in the Greek Landscape: Idealization, Appropriation, Disillusionment 195
17. Philhellenism and Constitutionalism: The First Greek Constitutions 211
18. Part III: Philhellenism and European Identity
19. Building Europe from Below: The Philhellenic Committee Movement as an Early Form of European Integration 225
20. Philhellenism and Geopolitics: Friedrich Thiersch’s De l’état actuel de la Grèce (1833) as a European Project 245
21. The Greek ‘Great Idea’ of Irredentism Up Against a Defunct Philhellenism (1850–1880) 261
22. Conclusions and Prospects
23. Ancient Greece and the Identity of Modern Europe 275
24. List of Contributors 287
25. Index of Names 289