A singular antiquity: archaeology and Hellenic identity in twentieth-century Greece

marketing of ‘local’ identities even as it finds genuine Otherness threatening. What appeared peculiar to this reader, at least, is that this final chapter appears to open a new space for critique of the present that the author chooses not to pursue. It questions the cosmopolitanism that has infused the European (Union) present with an acceptance of ‘difference lite’, which in Greece has resulted in a new re-valuing of Greece’s Balkan pasts. Calotychos sees in the new Greece a growing self-confidence, even though it is not clear from Calotychos’s discussion what the roots of that self-confidence may be. At the end of the final chapter, he observes that