“One Thousand Pieces of Eyes”: A Few Notes on Antonín Salač’s 1920–1921 Trip to Greece

• Authors: De Armond Thea
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The following paper considers the Czech classical scholar Antonin Salač’s (1885–1960) abortive attempts to network with Greek people and institutions during his first trip to Greece, in 1920–1921. As a scholar from Czechoslovakia, a new country lacking both funding and geopolitical clout, Salač leveraged a wide range of – ultimately, unsuccessful – strategies to create the connections that might support future research in Greece. This paper broadens our conceptions of how classical studies “works”, beyond the success stories of wealthy and powerful states.

Keywords

EN

Antonín Salač; history of classical studies; Greek-Czechoslovak relations; microhistory

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 169-191

Contributors

author

De Armond Thea

• Independent Scholar, Las Cruces, NM USA