Meaning of Grecophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

The love of the country, culture or people of Greece.

uncountable

Examples

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

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

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

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

CEFR level