Meaning of Graecophilia | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“[…]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.”

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