Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-x

Editors’ Preface

pp xi-xii

Notes On Contributors

pp xiii-xviii

Introduction - Greek and Scottish Identities from the Enlightenment to the ‘Age of Revolution’

pp 1-16

Part I - European Contexts

pp 17-18

1 - ‘Unspoken Assumptions’: Prophecies and Rumours in the Age of Greek Independence

pp 19-40

2 - Russia’s Byzantine Heritage: Sixteenth-Century Myths and Eighteenth-Century Realities

pp 41-63

3 - Translating the French Revolution: People, Commitments, Texts, Methods

pp 64-85

4 - ‘The Grand Sacrifice’: Violence and Revolution in Adamantios Korais’s Asma Polemistirion (1800)

pp 86-109

5 - The Philiki Etaireia and Freemasonry: Secret Communication, the Public Sphere and Social Ideas

pp 110-142

Part II - Scottish Connections

pp 143-144

6 - ‘Finer than the Acropolis’: Edinburgh, the Parthenon and the Scottish Genius

pp 145-166

7 - ‘A Faithless Truant to the Classic Page’: Sir Walter Scott, Greek, Greece and the Greeks

pp 167-208

8 - Through ‘the Eye of an Experienced Traveller’: Robert Wilson (1787–1871) in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece

pp 209-249

9 - Thomas Gordon and the Ghost of Tripolitsa: A Study in Private Conflict and Public Relations

pp 250-274

10 - George Finlay and the Greek Revolution of 1821: The Scottish Enlightenment and Transnational Liberalism in Revolutionary Europe

pp 275-302

11 - George Finlay, the Founding Figures of Greek National Historiography and Iconoclast Emperor Leo III: Byzantine Paratexts of Revolution

pp 303-326

12 - Edward Masson: Caledonian Witness to the Fortunes of Modern Greece

pp 327-352

13 - John Stuart Blackie and the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek

pp 353-372

Afterword - Parallel Lives at the Limits of Europe: Enlightenment and Nation-Building in Scotland and Greece

pp 373-390

Index

pp 391-405