caa a22 4500 388110813 CHVBK 20180307125352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S138020380000146X doi S138020380000146X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S138020380000146X Sacralising the Past [Elektronische Daten] Cults of archaeology in modern Greece1 The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining the topos of the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intellectuals. We offer an explanation of this phenomenon by examining the position of antiquity in the construction of the imagined community of the Hellenic nation, as well as the ways by which Orthodoxy and classical antiquity became enmeshed in the formation of Hellenic national identity.We finally explore some of the implications that this phenomenon has for archaeology as a discipline and as social practice. Copyright © The Author(s) 1999 Hamilakis Yannis Yalouri Eleana Archaeological Dialogues Cambridge University Press 6/2(1999-12), 115-135 1380-2038 6:2<115 1999 6 ARD https://doi.org/10.1017/S138020380000146X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S138020380000146X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hamilakis Yannis NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yalouri Eleana NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archaeological Dialogues Cambridge University Press 6/2(1999-12), 115-135 1380-2038 6:2<115 1999 6 ARD CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge