Preface

Archaeology and Hellenic identity, 1896-2004: the frustrated vision

11-30

Archaeology, nationalism and the land in modern Greece

Mark Mazower

33-41

Archaeological etymologies: monumentality and domesticity in twentieth-century Greece

Michael Herzfeld

43-54

National heritage and Greek revival: Ioannis Gennadios on the expatriated antiquities

George Tolias

55-65

‘Artfully classified’ and‘appropriately placed’: notes on the display of antiquities in early twentieth-century Greece

Andromache Gazi

67-82

Museum representations of the classical past in post-war Greece: a critical analysis

Marlen Mouliou

83-109

The excavation of the Ancient Agora of Athens: the politics of commissioning and managing the project

Niki Sakka

111-124

Greek legislation concerning the international movement of antiquities and its ideological and political dimensions

Daphne Voudouri

125-139

The chronotopes of the Hellenic past: virtuality, edutainment, ideology

Delia Tzortzaki

141-161

The rehearsal of antiquity in post-modern Greek fiction

Vassilis Lambropoulos

163-171

Paths to modernity: Dimitrios R. Theocharis and post-war Greek prehistory

Kostas Kotsakis

175-183

University of Athens and archaeological studies: the contribution of archaeology to the creation of a national past (1911-1932)

Vangelis Karamanolakis

185-195

The debate over Cretan icons in twentieth-century Greek historiography and their incorporation into the national narrative

Dionysis Mourelatos

197-207

Venetian monuments in Crete: a controversial heritage

Olga Gratziou

209-222

Ancient texts, classical archaeology and representation of the past: the development of a dialogue

Alexandra Bounia

223-236

The dead hand of Philology and the archaeologies of reading in Greece

Vangelis Calotychos

237-252

Time and the Antique: linear causality and the Greek art narrative

Dimitris Plantzos

253-272

Decolonizing Greek archaeology: indigenous archaeologies, modernist archaeology and the post-colonial critique

Yannis Hamilakis

273-284

Reconfiguring the past: Antiquity and Greekness

Dimitris Tziovas

287-298

The discourse on Hellenicity, historical continuity and the Greek Left

Angeliki Koufou

299-307

Archaeology and Greekness on the centenary celebrations of the Greek state

Dora F. Markatou

309-320

The uses of Antiquity in photographs by Nelly: imported modernism and home-grown ancestor worship in inter-war Greece

Dimitris Damaskos

321-336

Greek Antiquity and inter-war classicism in Greek Art: Modernism and tradition in the works and writings of Michalis Tombros and Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika in the thirties

Elena Hamalidi

337-358

An American in Paris, a Parsi in Athens

Artemis Leontis

359-373

The phantom of classicism in Greek architecture

Dimitris Philippides

375-382

The archaeologist in contemporary Greek novel

Maria Diamandi

383-399

In place of a conclusion

Dimitris Damaskos

403-407