Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Transliteration; 1. Memories Cast in Marble: Introduction; 2. The 'Soldiers', the 'Priests', and the 'Hospitals for Contagious Diseases': the Producers of Archaeological Matter-realities; 3. From Western to Indigenous Hellenism: Antiquity, Archaeology, and the Invention of Modern Greece; 4. The Archaeologist as Shaman: the Sensory National Archaeology of Manolis Andronikos; 5. Spartan Visions: Antiquity and the Metaxas Dictatorship; 6. The Other Parthenon: Antiquity and National Memory at the Concentration Camp. 7. Nostalgia for the Whole: the Parthenon (or Elgin) Marbles8. The Nation in Ruins? Conclusions; References; Index.

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