El proceso de helenización de la nación en Grecia: construcción de la identidad sobre las ruinas de la Acrópolis

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explain the process of Hellenization that took place among the Greek population during the final decades of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. Thus, the possible causes that led to it will be presented, as well as the means necessary to achieve it. Finally, the Acropolis complex in Athens will be analysed as a consequence of this process, having been endowed with a significance and ideological charge that directly impacts the idealization of the nationalist myth of cultural and racial heritage that presents modern Greeks as direct descendants of the ancients.