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