Consuming Greek Antiquity: Hillary Clinton in the Acropolis Museum

Παρασκευή 4 Ιανουαρίου 2013

Hillary Clinton in the Acropolis Museum

During her last visit in Athens in July 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the New Acropolis Museum on July 17, 2011 and these interesting photographs of her admiring the exhibits, especially the famous Kritios Boy and the Callimachus Nike, came up in the press.

Hillary and the Kritios Boy

Hillary admiring the model of the Callimachus Nike

(a photograph taken from her point of view)

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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.