„Grecyia”. Jak kształtowało się wyobrażenie europejskiej opinii publicznej o Grecji podczas powstania Greków przeciwko Osmanom – na podstawie doniesień „Gazety Krakowskiej” (roczniki 1821–1828). Rekonesans
‘Grecyia’. How the European public’s perception of Greece was formed during the uprising of the Greeks against the Ottomans, based on the reports of the ‘Gazeta Krakowska’ (1821–1828). Reconnaissance

Author(s): Małgorzata Borowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Greek uprising; Greeks; Greece; Hellenism; Ottoman Empire; Philhellenism; press
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses publications on the Greek uprising that appeared on an ongoing basis in the ‘‘Gazeta Krakowska’. It reprinted news from the foreign press in Polish translation, without any editorial commentary; depending on which press the news came from, the text was either Philhellenic or even condemning the uprising of the sultan’s subjects. In this article, the author focuses on reconstructing the image of Greece that emerged from such an alloy of reports on the uprising. Greece remained virtually an abstract construct with undefined and fluid boundaries. It seemed to have more in common with the ideas of classical gymnasium graduates about ancient Hellas than with the vision of a future modern state.

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