British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece: A Case Study of George Finlay (1799-1875)

British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece: A Case Study of George Finlay (1799-1875)

Liz Potter

2008/11/20

The copyright for articles in this journal is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use with proper attribution in educational and other non-commercial sectors. The Historical Review/La Revue Historique retains the right to publish papers that appear in the journal in collective volumes published by the Institute for Neohellenic Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation. Sample acknowledgement: Reprinted with permission from the author. Original publication in the The Historical Review/La Revue Historique   www.historicalreview.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Greece License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr/deed.en  or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA

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Liz Potter

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1791-7603

British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece: A Case Study of George Finlay (1799-1875)

2014-07-17 16:02:30

2008/11/20

This article offers a case study of George Finlay, a British philhellene whose intellectual make-up deserves more attention than it has previously been given (1). Unlike many Western European philhellenes who returned home disillusioned with Greece, Finlay spent his life in Athens (2); and unlike the overwhelmingly classicising Hellenism of his British contemporaries, his was a Hellenism that insisted on the interest and instructiveness of the history of Greece from the Roman period onwards (3). From a study of his History of Greece BC 146 to AD 1864 (4), and an analysis of its influences (5) and its uses (6), the article portrays Finlay as a complex, supple and interesting thinker. He is of particular interest to the nineteenth-century historian of political ideas for the ways in which he inherited and re-shaped ideas associated with civic virtue, philosophic history and contemporary liberalism.

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British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece

British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece: A Case Study of George Finlay (1799-1875)

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