METAXAS RE-BRANDED is a new book. It is a graphic design large format book containing 50 posters from the 4th of August state. Except that they all are new, but styled with the features of the graphic propaganda that was […]
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This is a short (fictional) story about Metaxas from an American magazine for children after WW2, which was retrieved in 2005 by priest John W. Ritenbaugh for a sermon called “Don’t Lose Your Focus!”. Here is another something that actually […]
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“Metaxas? They make good brandy,” Joel (who lived for six months in Greece) jokes, when I tell him one of my co-bloggers has asked what Greeks today think of Metaxas, the dictator who ruled Greece during the late 30s. In […]
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This is an article retrieved from the Time Magazine archives. It is an editorial published on 4 November 1941, about King George II and Metaxas, 10 months after the latter’s death: Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan […]
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This article is part of a paper examining the interplay between archaeology and dictatorship in the context of the Greek experience. This particular part is related to the period of fascism in Greece (1936-1941). The picture of Greece in the […]
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On certain occasions, the propaganda used by the 4th of August regime aped the methods of Mussolini and Hitler. Metaxas gave himself symbolic titles, such as ‘First Worker’ (Protos Ergatis) and ‘First Peasant’ (Protos Agrotis), founded the national youth organisation […]
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Our publishing house Pelekys has just released a new book, titled “Metaxas Jugend – A picture album of the Greek Fascist Youth EON (Εθνική Οργάνωση Νεολαίας)” (see product page here), featuring over 400 pictures of the Greek equivalent to the […]
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The 4th of August State implemented strict censorship policies through the so-called Ministry of Press and Tourism. It is noteworthy to notice that Metaxas created this ministry just a couple of weeks after establishing its regime on August 4, 1936. […]
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Ioannis Metaxas was born in Ithaca on April 12, 1871. His family roots traced back to the Byzantine nobility based in Constantinople. The head of the Metaxas family was Markos Antonios, who was advisor and co-warrior of the Byzantine emperor Konstantinos Palaiologos. After the […]
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On January 29, 1941 one of Modern Hellas’ greatest leaders, Ioannis Metaxas, passed away. Born on the island of Ithaki (Ithaca) on the 12 of April 1871 and raised in Kefalonia, Metaxas was a student at the Military Academy in […]
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