Consuming Greek Antiquity: Greece

Δευτέρα 12 Μαρτίου 2012

The second part of this long tribute continues with more cartoons inspired by Greek antiquity and related to the Greek Crisis problem.

When one observes the images in both this and the previous post, one realizes which images of ancient Greece are considered appropriate, more popular and easily recognisable as to be used in modern-day cartoons and other images aiming to be readily perceived as "Greek" by the broad public.

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What's this?

Consuming Greek Antiquity is an on-going project of mine aiming to explore the various ways through which Greek antiquity has been consumed by the 20th c. popular media, especially photography and graphic illustration.

I'm mainly interested in the most original and ingenious examples of incorporating and often interpreting elements of the ancient greek culture. Whole sites, monuments, artefacts, historical and mythological figures appear in the least expected places and these unexpected occurences and strange encounters are the main focus of this blog.

Having just written this, I need to stress that this is a more-fun-than-work project, rather than the other way round, so no strict criteria are applied, i.e. not only 20th c. and not only popular media, but I'll try to stick to only Greek antiquity.

Effort has been made to include attribution to the original sources of the works presented here, but apologies are offered in advance where I have failed.

Consuming Greek Antiquity

Δευτέρα 12 Μαρτίου 2012

Greece - The Crisis Years II

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