[Heidegger] asserted that the identity of modern Europe and its origins are not Greek, as is usually assumed by certain discourses of Western history since the Enlightenment and by some modern day Greeks, but more closely rooted in the Roman (or Latin) world.

Despite the initial surprise of Heidegger’s assertion, a closer examination reveals he was partially correct, leading to important implications for our understanding of Greek and Western identity which is of vital importance to Greeks living in Hellas, and even more so for Greeks in the Omogeneia, that are in greater danger of being isolated and eventually severed from Hellenism. Heidegger’s assertion also shows the partial illegitimacy of the contemporary fetish of appropriating elements of Hellenism to justify political positions and actions of certain groups of people in the Clash of Civilization discourse.

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