Lang & National Identity in Greece C

by Peter Mackridge

Book Overview

This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks -- sometimes with fatal results -- for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new, Hellenic, national identity alongside the traditional identity supplied by Orthodox Christianity. The ensuing controversy focused on the language, fuelled on the one hand by a desire to develop...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199214425
• ISBN13: 9780199214426
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"