This research is basically a literary expression, in the form of unique scenes that compose three basic acts, in a "play". Each of these acts, is related to a geographical location and an antiquity, during a specific period. In the first Act, Athens has been selected and Acropolis as the monument that stands on the podium and has determined the birth and perpetuation of the Greek national imaginary, through the symbolic character of the Parthenon itself. In the second Act, Butrint with its antiquities has been selected, as a monument that collects key features related to national narrative because the archaeological findings related to the period of the second Act’s research were considered to be "fully compliant" with the needs of this period’s authority and because of that lost entirely the interest to be used as a causation. The purpose that serves in the research as an antiquity is those of the missing object that is tried to be found,as the element that directly establishes the recently conquered. In the third Act, the Vergina and the tomb of Philip II is selected as the antiquity that comes to light to validate what has been conquered not long ago and to reinforce the narrative of nation and it’s devolution of the Classical period into the Hellenistic.

The several scenes that build up each of these the three Acts are different pieces of archaeological, historical, political, social and sometimes economical interest, so as to compose in the best possible way the exact “character” of the period is being studied.

The term “imaginary” has been found in the writings of Cornelius Castoriadis, who used it to describe social characteristics as the source of rules, traditions and others that set and organize the human life, as the unprecedented creative ability of communities; it is also found in the writings of Jacques Emile Lacan, as one of the three basic structures that composes the human nature in the field of psychoanalysis. It was considered essential to include a psychoanalytic approach, in the last seen of each Act, about all those analyzed in the previous scenes. This approach is derived by the chorus, in the context of Greek drama, in this play. It is intrinsically linked to the events that take place, however its impact on the text is indirect, much like the impact of the chorus. This kind of approach, takes place also through the use of three diagrams, one for each Act, that Lacan has proposed. Each diagram follows a table of contest, according to the use of each case.

In several occasions, the historical part is disproportionate to the socio-political or psychoanalytic approach. This is because interest is focused on every factor that is considered to have played the most catalytic role in shaping the imaginary of citizens.