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Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yannis Hamilakis  and
Eleana Yalouri
Yannis Hamilakis
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter, Dyfed SA48 7ED, Wales. E-mail: Y.Hamilakis@Sheffield.ac.uk
Eleana Yalouri
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, England
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Abstract

The Great Powers — starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present — have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 117 - 129
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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