Yep, that's what I meant too. While my own view may be painted by the German part of my identity (e.g. the time there and reading SPIEGEL or GEO), it definitely exists in the new member states too - the "joining the EU = re-joining Europe" meme involves that thought. Maybe that myth should be re-sold in Britain (and, it seems, in Ireland), and in some form sold in Sweden (where staying out of WWI and WWII led to a national myth of blissful isolation possibly even stronger than on the Islands).

In the future it can be substituted with the classic 'bull raptures bathing nymphette' myth to englobe Turkey and the new ME accession states (Syria, Iraq, Libanon, Israel and Palestine), as well as Morokko, Algeria, Lybia, Tunisia and Egypt. At that point the 'return of the muses' myth would be appropriate and (obviously) Ovid's Eneade. Btw Enea's tomb is near Lavinium. A good place to build sea side summer houses. Here is one of the smaller ones.

Yes to it all!

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}