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"Uses of the Past and Constructing Cultural Identity: Ancient Greek Experience"
| This paper concerns the ancient Greek experience in using the past constructing their cultural identiy. The so called Archaic age of the Greeks is revolutionary age. It witnessed the emergence of the city state, the spread of writing and literacy, the codification of Homer's poems, the colonial movement and tha spread of city state overseas. The overseas experience helped the Greeks in constructing the Other and in idetifying themselves as cultural unity constructing the Panhellenism. During this period emerged their strong interest in the past which reflected in cult practices and later in writing history as an intellectual activity. The paper also concerns with this practice as important legacy still alive in constructing our European identity.
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