ABSTRACT
Modern Greeks tend to be seen-by themselves as well as by others-in relation to the past. The educationalist Anna Frangoudaki points out that, in the view of many Greeks, “Greece draws from antiquity, and not from the present, its value and its rightful place among the peoples [i.e. the European peoples] that are ‘superior’ to all the other peoples on Earth.”1 One’s identity has two facets: how you see yourself in relation to others, and how others see you in relation to themselves. In this chapter, I am concentrating on the image of the collective cultural identity that Greeks project to the outside world.
