Articles & Commentary

  1. 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.

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

    Messianism and Enlightenment in 1821

  3. 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.

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

    Two women speaking from the heart

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

    A collective vision for the next decade

  6. 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

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

    The Filiki Eteria as we never knew it

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Ta Nea Review: "The Public and Private Life of General Vasos Braiovits-Mavrovouniotis 1797-1847" (Stefanos Papageorgiou)

    The life of a Balkan protagonist of 1821

    The professor emeritus chooses to write the biography of Vasos Braiovits, a difficult "hero" of the Greek revolution who was of Montenegrin origin

  16. Ta Nea Review: "Chronicle of the Cyprus Tragedy" (Sotiris Rizas)

    “Distance from the events is a rough road”

    The director of the Research Centre for Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens talks about his latest book, "Chronicle of the Cyprus Tragedy", Makarios, and the lost opportunities of the Cyprus issue

  17. Ta Nea Review: "Theatre in Zakynthos in the 20th Century. 1901-1953" (Dionysis N. Mousmoutis)

    The unknown universe of Zakynthian theatre

    The vast theatrical history of the island in the first half of the 20th century, divided by the devastating earthquake that changed everything...

  18. Ta Nea Review: "Armenians and the Greek State in the Cold War" (Leonidas Dilsizian)

    From persecution to social integration

    The postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and History at Panteion University seeks to shed light on the presence of Armenians in the Greek state throughout the Cold War

  19. Ta Nea Review: "Sferdouklia on the Head" (Vrasidas Karalis)

    A tribute to grandmother Dionysia

    The professor at the University of Sydney keeps alive the memory of people who lived in difficult times, worked hard and built a strong foundation of a precious tangible and intangible heritage

  20. Ta Nea Review: "The Bloody Rally of 9 December 1923" (Ioannis V. Daskarolis) · "Peace, War, Politics, Conspiracies: The Greek Officers, 1935-1945" (Tasos Sakellaropoulos)

    The harsh coming of age of the Greek state

    Three books, one of them in a foreign language, on the critical period 1915-1945, which saw two civil wars and nine coups, the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the Metaxas dictatorship and the world wars