This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This series of case studies covers a broad range of source material, and it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, archaeologists, art historians and others. Of particular interest for Napoleonists are the essays by Tim Rood and Edmund Richardson, the former on Napoleon I and his reference to Themistocles, and the latter on Napoleon III and his history of Julius Caesar. There is much here of interest for all those fascinated by the 19th century.
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