Articles & Commentary

  1. Ta Nea

    Ioannis Kapodistrias: What should I read to learn about him?

    Some of the most important reference works, biographies and monographs about the first Governor of the Greek state.

  2. Ta Nea Review: «Histoire de la Rome antique» (Yann Le Bohec)

    The ultimate Roman history textbook

    A sober, dense and pedagogically oriented work, designed primarily for higher education students

  3. Ta Nea Review: "The Arab-Israeli Conflict" (Andreas Bouroutis)

    The Middle East without “camps”

  4. Ta Nea Review: "The Time of the Mad" (Spyros N. Litsas)

    When a police officer collaborates with a Republican Army officer

    The detective novel by International Relations professor Spyros Litsas is set during the Greek Civil War.

  5. Ta Nea Review: "Sacred myths and national ideas in modern Greece" (Marios Hatzopoulos)

    Messianism and Enlightenment in 1821

  6. Ta Nea Review: "The Greek Revolution as an Ottoman crisis" (Eleni Gara)

    In 1821 as an Ottoman affair

    A new volume sees the Greek Revolution not as an outgrowth of Hellenism's existential quest, but as a revolution that came about due to the crisis of the imperial system.

  7. Ta Nea

    Greece’s role in World War II

    How did the resistance contribute to the initial phase of the war in Europe?

  8. Ta Nea Review: "A Conversation" (Rose-Marie Lagrave)

    Two women speaking from the heart

  9. Ta Nea Review: "The World in 2035" (Petros Ioannidis)

    A collective vision for the next decade

  10. Ta Nea Review: "The Four Horsemen: Riding to Revolution from the Age of Napoleon to the Russian Civil War" (Richard Stites)

    When the liberal revolutions failed

  11. Ta Nea Review: "The Filiki Eteria, 1814-1821" (George Demetrios Frangos)

    The Filiki Eteria as we never knew it

  12. Ta Nea Review: "The State in Exile" (Kostas Chatziantoniou)

    The 1940s without their myths

    The author shows how the government in exile in the Middle East was used as a tool by the British, but also by the Left

  13. Ta Nea Review: "The Glory of the State. Crown and Politics in Greece (1830-1974)" (Spyridon G. Ploumidis)

    The crown in the mirror of Greek history

    The professor at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens traces the institutions, people and political dilemmas of a century in a calm, well-documented anatomy of the course of the monarchy in Greece, from the founding of the state to its final abolition

  14. Ta Nea

    Naousa: the “forgotten” Holocaust of 1822

    The important role of the city and of Macedonia in the preparation and first years of the Revolution, and the destruction of 1822, which deserves a place in the collective national memory

  15. Ta Nea Review: "Paths of the Thought of K. Th. Dimaras" (Giannis Dimitrakakis)

    K. Th. Dimaras and the scholars of the interwar period

    The evolution of the intellectual path of the literary historian and his ideological shifts, through six studies

  16. Ta Nea

    The world that seemed it would be stable

    In May 1945, when the Second World War ended, the world was asking for more Europe and more democracy. In 2025 the world cannot bear less democracy and less Europe

  17. Ta Nea Review: "Innocent Marbles" (Giannis Papatheodorou)

    “Cast in the bronze of the Word…”

    Giannis Papatheodorou, professor at the University of Patras, records the history of the controversy over the bust of the philosopher and cleric from Andros, on Andros, in the early 20th century

  18. Ta Nea Review: "The Aegean Fighters of Ikaria" (Chrysostomos I. Fountoulis)

    When Ikaria became independent

    The unknown story of the island's revolution and liberation without outside help. For months it lived like an organised state, called the Free State of Ikaria, until its incorporation into Greece

  19. Ta Nea Review: "The Return of Marco Polo's World" (Robert D. Kaplan)

    Marco Polo in our time

    The well-known journalist uses the journey of the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer as a framework for interpreting today's geopolitics and as an indicator of the developments we may see in the future

  20. Ta Nea Review: "A Line in the Sand" (James Barr)

    The agreement that brought tension to the Middle East

    The story of how a line of influence was drawn on arbitrary criteria and divided the region between Britain and France