Resumen de Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society

Yannis Hamilakis, Eleana Yalouri

• 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.