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This is part of the article with statements of the known for his positions in Greece NIKOS DIMOU and the unknown STATHIS GOURGOURIS,
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Writer Nikos Dimou states the following in a recent NY Times interview;
"It';s the fault of a German," Mr. Dimou said about Greek pride in this cause. He was referring to Johann Winckelmann, the 18th-century German art historian whose vision of an ancient Greece "populated by beautiful, tall, blond, wise people, representing perfection," as Mr. Dimou put it, was in a sense imposed on the country to shape modern Greek identity.(4)
He also goes on to say;
"We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates,'; and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover."(5)
What eventually led to the wide-spread phenomenon of these Aryanist values was through the Science of Antiquity a school where the study of classical civilization forged the discipline of the fictional Hellenic model. Scholar Stathis Gourgouris wrote the following in his book Dream Nation;
In practical terms, however, the historical absurdity of declaring Hellenic civilization the expression of a culture uncontaminated by foreign elements can be explained by a simple fact that usually tends to be disregarded-namely, that Hellenic civilization as we know itwas in fact the invention of the "Science of Antiquity", of classics. As such it could have been (and was) endowed with whatever signification the discipline found useful.(6)
"It';s the fault of a German," Mr. Dimou said about Greek pride in this cause. He was referring to Johann Winckelmann, the 18th-century German art historian whose vision of an ancient Greece "populated by beautiful, tall, blond, wise people, representing perfection," as Mr. Dimou put it, was in a sense imposed on the country to shape modern Greek identity.(4)
He also goes on to say;
"We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates,'; and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover."(5)
What eventually led to the wide-spread phenomenon of these Aryanist values was through the Science of Antiquity a school where the study of classical civilization forged the discipline of the fictional Hellenic model. Scholar Stathis Gourgouris wrote the following in his book Dream Nation;
In practical terms, however, the historical absurdity of declaring Hellenic civilization the expression of a culture uncontaminated by foreign elements can be explained by a simple fact that usually tends to be disregarded-namely, that Hellenic civilization as we know itwas in fact the invention of the "Science of Antiquity", of classics. As such it could have been (and was) endowed with whatever signification the discipline found useful.(6)
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Υ.Γ.:Αυτός ο ανεκδιήγητος κύριος έχει φτιάξει μια δική του θεωρία, που την περιφέρει στα διάφορα έντυπα που προπαγανδίζουν υπέρ των Σκοπίων και έτσι διαμορφώνει την φήμη του... Από θεωρίες του κώλου κύριε Δήμου, έχουμε πολλές... και περισσότερες οι Σκοπιανοί!!!
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