Esther Solomon 
Contested Antiquity [EPUB ebook] 
Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and Cyprus
Part I: Between nationalism, colonialism and crypto-colonialism: Historical perspectives and current implications
1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece’s National ‘Sites of Trauma’
2. Archaeology and Politics in the Inter-War Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine
3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past
4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War Years
Part II: Spatial metaphors and ethnographic observations: heritage, memory and dissonance
5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-first Century
6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a ‘Sacred’ Archaeological Landscape
7. Archaeological ‘Protection Zones’ and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment and Contested Spaces in Greece
Part III: Competing pasts
8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis?
9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology
10. Contemporary Art and ‘Difficult Heritage’: Three Case Studies from Athens
Endnote
Index

Esther Solomon is Assistant Professor in Museum Studies at the University of Ioannina. She has worked as curator in several museums in Greece and abroad and has published extensively on museum representations, the social and political uses of the past, material culture, social identity, cultural memory, and tourism.