ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores how disparate agents and institutions have used classical heritage in a range of different contexts to construct a particular European identity within the Danish nation state, sometimes through explicit agendas and discourses, at other times through subtler, more deeply ingrained practices. It also explores the establishment of the subject Classical Studies as a foundation for knowledge about Greek culture in the education of an increasing proportion of the Danish population. The book provides Danish fieldwork in the Mediterranean, and Turkey more specifically, in order to establish how such work was informed by the practices of classicism. Investments in fieldwork overseas–by both private and public sponsors–can be translated into cultural capital and thus qualify Denmark as a European power within academia.
