The political establishment is attempting to toss the name of the architect of the epos of 1940-41, Ioannis Metaxas, into oblivion. Following the news on 7 April about the fighters of fortress “Roupel”, I noticed that neither the announcer nor […]
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This is a review of the “The Metaxas Dictatorship: Aspects of Greece 1936-1940″ book. The dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas has produced little substantive scholarship in Greek or other languages despite its momentous impact on developments in Greece both during its […]
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Sixty years have gone by since the Second World War (WW II) storm hit Greece in 1940, bringing her untold suffering until her 1944 liberation with the help of her Allies. WW II broke out in Europe on 1 September […]
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Petty politics in Greece and the so-called National Schism divided Greek politics and society in the mid-1930s. A number of coups d’état and sudden changes of governments led King George to choose General Metaxas to head a new government in 1936. […]
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In his The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge 1985), David Lowenthal has demonstrated that whether by celebrating some of its aspects [or] expunging others, we reshape the past in line with present needs. Forty-three years earlier, the future kyvernitis […]
Read more »For the curious, this is the old description of the project from 2007: I created the Metaxas Project some years ago as the logical consequence of my interest in Metaxas, an interest which emerged as a consequence of myself being of Kefalonian […]
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