Grecophilia

English

Alternative forms

• Graecophilia

Etymology

From Greco- +‎ -philia.

Noun

Grecophilia (uncountable)

1. The love of the country, culture or people of Greece.
   • 1949–1967, Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, page 53:

     On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”

   • 1951–1983, Castrum Peregrini:

     Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

   • 1957, Robert Winter, The Organic Principles in American Architectural Theory, page 49:

     Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.

   • 1967, Peter Demetz, Marx, Engels, and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism, page 121:

     Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel.

Related terms

• Grecophile