(39) This constitutes a triumph of 'strong
philhellenism' (to borrow Nigel Leask's term) in its lauding of modern Greeks; see Leask, 'Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold ii and the "polemic of Ottoman Greece"', in The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed.
His example made
Philhellenism a cause with even greater international appeal than the French Revolution.
German
philhellenism, of which Nietzsche was a rogue devotee, is also essentially absent from Toepfer's discussion, but the persistent appeal of classicism helps to explain the striking strength of German body culture.
Influenced by German
philhellenism, Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1842, reformed the public schools that educated the ruling class of Victorian Britain.
In doing so, Theophilus Prousis also illuminates specific aspects of Alexander's Russia by examining
philhellenism in the context of government relief aid, the Decembrist movement, the resurgence of interest in classical antiquity, and Russian Romanticism.
As the beard was "un-Roman," Hadrian's beard marks the beginning of a transition toward greater
philhellenism. Increasingly, Romans depict themselves with longer, more "learned" and philosophical beards.
For an attack on Shelley's idealist
philhellenism see Jerome McCann, The Romantic Ideology (U.
However, this article tries to evade the danger of reducing British interest in the Cretan insurrection to a series of biographical notes, because such an approach fails to grasp aspects of
Philhellenism that make it a significant element in the history of Liberal agitation in the Victorian age.
(4) This seemed to be the most fruitful way of uncovering the Greek original, as if one could peel back the (inferior) Roman layer and reveal the unadulterated masterpiece within--a desire that reflects a long tradition of
philhellenism and the belief that Roman literature is merely derivative of Greek.