Original version
History of Humanities. 2020, 5 (1), 151-163, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/707696
Abstract
Taking the work of the Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Undset (1853–93) as a starting point, this essay invites us to rethink European philhellenism, and its concomitant neo-classicist tendencies, as a distinctive “regime of forgetting.” Discussing responses to Greece and Greek history from diverse contexts, it also explores how, in different cultural spheres, different “layers” of Greek history were forgotten, suggesting that, just like regimes of remembering, “regimes of forgetting” can be highly situation dependent.