Introduction: Ancient monuments and modern identities / Sofia Voutsaki
1. The provenance of Greek painted vases: disciplinary debates and modern identities in the early 19th century / Giovanna Ceserani
2. Travellers and ruins in the Spartan landscape: a ghost story / Paraskevas Matalas
3. The reception of J.J. Winckelmann by Greek scholarship during the formative stage of the Modern Greek state (1832-1862) / Irene Fatsea
4. The legal protection of antiquities in Greece and national identity / Daphne Voudouri
5. Displaying archaeology
exhibiting ideology in 19th and early 20th century Greek museums / Andromache Gazi
6. Archaeology and politics: The Greek-German Olympia excavations treaty, 1869-1875 / Thanassis N. Bohotis
7. The Hellenization of the prehistoric past: the search for Greek identity in the work of Christos Tsountas / Sofia Voutsaki
8. 'The stamp of national life': plaster casts and their uses in Greece at the end of the 19th century / Alexandra Alexandri
9. Beyond the debt to Antiquity: constructing a national architecture for Modern Greece / Eleni Bastéa
10. Are histories of archaeology good to think with? / Michael Fotiadis
11. Why should the state protect the cultural heritage? The answer offered by Greek law / Vassilis Voutsakis.