Graecophilia

English

Noun

Graecophilia (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Grecophilia
   • 1954, Comparative Literature, page 77:

     For a well-read contemporary of Goethe’s, in an age when German Graecophilia was greatest if not most “gründlich,” the “Klassische Walpurgisnacht” should have been immediately accessible.

   • 1957, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, page 681:

     Among studies dealing philologically with the transmission of literary traditions and forms is Anton Gail’s erudite demonstration of the fruitful persistence of Latin literary influence beside the growing Graecophilia in Germany in the eighteenth century.

   • 1963, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Essays on Philosophy and the Classics, page xii:

     […] Mazzini slept with Tacitus under his pillow—was in some things very old-fashioned, using the far past as a lever to unseat the near past, as his passionate Graecophilia and the defiant championing of the school logic sufficiently attest.