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Partir pour la Grèce. Pourquoi nous avons toujours besoin des Anciens. Archéologie généralité a Latinist and historian of"Ancient Greece is the most beautiful invention of modern times," wrote Paul Valry. In 1964, Roy Lichtenstein echoed him by presenting The Time of Apollo as an advertising stereotype, an emblem of a postcard Greece. Provocative, the canvas by the master of Pop Art, like Valry's sentence, invites us to question our relationship with Greece. This heritage, so long placed at the heart of European culture, is made up of multiple journeys towards an object