However, for his critics in the press and even for some of his colleagues in government, Gladstone's
philhellenism, understood as affection to everything Hellenic including the modern kingdom and its people, acquired the status of an undisputed truth.
From here, the exhibition took off on a wild ride through a constellation of historical ethnographic material of all kinds, both as source and as subject, ultimately leading to an installation by McDermott & McGough and Piotr Uklanski (The Greek Way, 2017) that simplistically and problematically addresses German fascism, its
philhellenism, and the implicit reaction formation behind the homophobia of the Nazis.
A very prominent topic for Dabrowa is the old question of "Parthian
Philhellenism," expressed mainly via their coins, which consistently follow Greek, i.e., Seleucid prototypes.
Furthermore, the presence of the marbles in the British Museum has supposedly played a major role in the rise of
philhellenism and influenced many cultures for which consequently the Parthenon is part of their cultural heritage as well.
It is, in other words, both an Asiatic regime that precedes the free subjectivity of the Greeks as this is actuated by their relationship with kindly Nature, and an emic Greek regime that Schiller acknowledges both in its original Greekness and in its persistence into German
philhellenism. He cites Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris on the Titanism of pre-aesthetic human being: this pre-subject of immediate contact has the "vigorous marrow of the Titans" (der Titanen / Kraftvolles Mark ist sein) (Schiller 1967, 172).
KEYWORDS: Edgar Allan Poe, ancient Greece, Hellenic language,
philhellenism, Hellenic history, Hellenic tragedy.
Moreover, Musurus undoubtedly was aware of Leo's
philhellenism, for which see e.g.
(56.) Maria Koundoura, "Between Orientalism and
Philhellenism: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's 'Real' Greeks," The Eighteenth Century 45, no.