Recent books discussed in this article include Richard Clogg, Anglo-Greek Attitudes: Studies in History (London: St. Martin’s Press and New York: Macmillan, 2000), 217 pp., Hb. ISBN 0 312 23523 2; Thomas Gallant, Modern Greece (London: Arnold, 2001), 320 pp., Pb, ISBN 0 340 76337 X; Gregory Jusdanis, The Necessary Nation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 272 pp., Pb. ISBN 0 691 08902; Mark Mazower, ed., After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 352 pp., Pb. ISBN 0 691 05842 3; Robert Shannan Peckham, National Histories, Natural States: Nationalism and the Politics of Place in Greece (London: I. B.Tauris, 2001), 256 pp., Hb. ISBN 1 860 64641 7. I woke up with this marble head in my hands; it exhausts my elbows and I don’t know where to put it down. It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream so our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to disunite again. George Seferis, “Mythistorima,” pt. 3.1‬