Until recently, the dominant management model of archaeological sites in Greece largely drew upon a logic of enframing (Thomas 2004: 79; see also Díaz-Andreu & Champion 1996; Dietler 1994; Olsen 2012), which understood the past as "gone" and "completed", a temporal entity in other words, whose closure and finitude needed to be guaranteed through physical demarcation (Olsen, 2012: 215). We shall call this "the enclosure model", for in essence, it sought to isolate monuments from the sphere of the everyday. The tendency to spatially distinguish the past from the present has its roots in modernity, particularly the 19 th century: at the time, prominent archaeological sites across the Mediterranean were marked out (and henceforth rendered "visible") as loci of exclusive membership (i.e. products of archaeological activity, arenas of intellectual/ scientific discourse) but above all, as representational spaces of collective appeal, accommodating both nationalist and colonialist narratives (cf.