![]() After ten years of war, Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Cassandra is now a prisoner, shackled outside the gates of Agamemnon’s Mycenae. In early-Victorian Britain "civilization" implied a number of things that Britain was experiencing and valued: industrial development, free trade, material comfort and liberal political institutions. Cassandra Christa Wolf, Jan van Heurck (Translator) 3.85 3,181 ratings343 reviews Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. The standards used in the assessment of Greece's advance were by no means novel or especially adopted for the Greek case. ![]() Moreover, the captivity and death of British travellers near Athens, the Greek capital, in 1870 further confirmed rather than altered the existing body of British assumptions about the Greek kingdom and crystallized them into a definite diagnosis of Greek modernity. This article argues that the travellers perceptions of Greek modernity were firmly based on contemporary notions of "civilization" and "national prosperity", although allusions to classical antiquity always filtered into their accounts. ![]() Its aims are to pinpoint and construe elements of discursive continuity in the image of modern Greece in travel literature and to interpret the travellers' strong impact on the British reading public. This article examines British images of the independent Greek state and the contribution of travelling to their formation from 1832 to 1870. In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary. ![]()
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