Toward a National "Heterotopia": Ancient Theaters and the Cultural Politics of Performing Ancient Drama in Modern Greece

Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. Because these places are absolutely different from all the sites that they reflect and speak about, I shall call them, by way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias.8 Heterotopias are, thus, geographical as much as ideological places, which, unlike utopias, organize the community's imaginings around an existing site.