"The Greeks" at Quebec's Canadian Museum of Civilization describes 8000 years of Hellenic culture from prehistoric times through the early 19th Century.
Gatineau, Quebec's Canadian Museum of Civilization will host The Greeks, more than 180 objects and works of art that survey eight millennia of Hellenic civilization from antiquity through the early 19th Century. The exhibition will be on view from May 30 to September 28, 2008. The CMC is the exclusive Canadian venue for this show from Athens' renowned Benaki Museum.
- Prehistory and Antiquity (7000 B.C.-400 A.D.) features objects from the dawn of agriculture and animal husbandry on the Greek shores to the region's period of Roman imperial domination. A Hellenistic golden wreath crown of oak leaves and flowers and a marble head of the mythological Paris from Roman times are highlights of the exhibition's first section.
- The Byzantine Period (476-1500 A.D.) examines the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman roots of the Byzantine Empire's cultural and political institutions as seen in its secular and religious art.
- The Greeks in the Ottoman Empire (1400-1800) explores Greece's enduring artistic traditions during foreign rule by the Ottoman Turks.
- Towards an Independent Greek State displays early 19th-century objects, including those dating from the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire (1821-1832).
