Articles & Commentary
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A change of framework and function is needed
With 2% of the country standing as candidates in the local government elections, turnout of only 40%-50% shows there is a problem in citizens' awareness of these elections, and the degree of local self-government that in theory concerns citizens' everyday lives does not seem to convince them.
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The education of women through the eyes of two Protestants
The records of the Hills fill a large gap in the Protestant educational presence in Greece, and especially concerning the Hill School, a landmark of post-revolutionary Athens
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In memory of Konstantinos Pitsakis
The multifaceted personality of one of the leading professors of Legal History in Greece, through the eyes of his colleagues and scholarly companions
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Macedonia through the eyes of the Germans
A study revealing that interest in the ancient Greek world in 19th-century Prussia was linked to the later rise of German imperialism
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Constructing and deconstructing Makarios
The "Bonapartist formation" of the ecclesiastical leader, who acquired a key political role, as told by the bold Cypriot historian
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My own atomic energy…
A journalistic investigation into Greece's unknown nuclear ambitions during the 20th century and the discovery of uranium in the country in the 1950s
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The theatrical surprise came from Elefsina
At a time when the discussion about the Epidaurus performances, which this year in particular provoked varied reactions, has opened, often intensely, I think the great theatrical surprise came from an event that has been running for two years and producing some especially interesting happenings: "2023 Eleusis – European Capital of Culture", under the artistic direction of Michael Marmarinos.
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Outside the walls
Foreign-language titles from the field of international politics and Greek and international History
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The European critical conscience
He was one of the writers who shaped the literary (and political) universe in the second half of the 20th century. Reading, for example, his novel "The Joke", beyond its literary issues, was a decisive help in understanding the nature of the regimes of the then "non-existent socialism" and of their societies.
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The middle class: the Holy Grail in Greece and Europe
The 2022 State Prize for Essay-Criticism was awarded to Panagis Panagiotopoulos, associate professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science of the University of Athens, for his work "Adventures of the Middle Class. Sociological Records in Greece of the Late Metapolitefsi", Epikentro publications, 2022, an emblematic study of the history, formation and function of the middle class in post-war Greece, starting from the European and arriving at the Greek example.
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The writer as an eyewitness of History
The talented representative of non-fiction records the trial of the surviving members of the Islamist terrorist group that carried out the murderous attacks at the Bataclan in 2015
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The regained time of the Manakias brothers
The bilingual album of photographs from the early 20th century, from the Foundation of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and Modern History of Macedonia (IMMA) and the University of Macedonia Press
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“We study History seriously, but we don’t write seriously”
The historian talks about the charm of narrative, the significance of the Enlightenment as against the Middle Ages in European history, and Thucydides, on the occasion of his book "So, About Modern Europe"
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The revolutionary phenomenon in France and Greece
The new history of the French Revolution by the French historian Annie Jourdan and the collective volume of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism on the revolutionary phenomenon
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The questions and transformations of 1821
The mentalities and behaviours during 1821, the picture of a different world as opposed to the Church, and how the Revolution is realised and experienced according to region and social group
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Inside Erdogan’s mind
There are two roads for the Turkish President: either he will continue his strategy of tension and his warmongering tactics, or this disaster will give him the pretext to shift his agenda at home and to rebuild the region of southern Turkey.
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A “biography” of the French Institute
Nikolas Manitakis's research on the institution that was inaugurated in Athens in 1915
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When the English Conservatives wanted to return them to Greece
Unknown stories about the support of senior English officials of the Conservative Party, and of technocrats, for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from 1883 until the Second World War
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The three (symbolic) burials of Constantine
The death of the former and deposed King Constantine marks a symbolic end to the institution of the monarchy, which had institutionally ended with the 1974 referendum, since with the "de-dynastification" of his descendants, who live as private citizens, the cycle of the monarchy in Greece closes definitively.
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A foundational moment of the Modern Greek Enlightenment
The new Amolgos edition of the "Memoir on the Present State of Civilization in Greece", with explanatory texts by the university professors Nikos Kokkomelis, Giannis Papatheodorou and Alexandros Katsigiannis