Book Description

The volume includes revised papers by specialist researchers who discuss, from a historical perspective, the establishment of the humanities in Greece during the nineteenth century.

With classical studies as the dominant field, the disciplines of classical philology, archaeology, history, linguistics, folklore studies, and pedagogy gradually emerged over the course of the nineteenth century. During the same period, the early manifestations of Byzantine and Modern Greek philology also appeared, fields of scholarship that came to full development in the twentieth century. The primary setting in which the process of the formation of the humanities took place was the University, though not exclusively so, as evidenced by publications in the press and periodicals of the time, as well as by the scholarly work of secondary education teachers. An important role was also played by developments in the broader European context, particularly in Germany, where the majority of those engaged in these fields pursued their studies.