Modern Greek History: From One Revolution to Another

AbstractAlthough there are many works on individual Modern Greek dialects, there are very few overall descriptions, classifications, or cartographical representations of Greek dialects available in the literature. This paper discusses some possible reasons for these lacunae, having to do with dialect methodology, and Greek history and geography. It then moves on to employ the work of Kontossopoulos and Newton in an attempt to arrive at a more detailed classification of Greek dialects than has hitherto been attempted, using a small number of phonological criteria, and to provide a map, based on this classification, of the overall geographical configuration of Greek dialects.

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Angelopoulos and Collective Narrative

The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748697953.003.0006 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Fredric Jameson ◽

Stathis Kouvelakis

Keyword(s):

European Countries ◽

Modern Greek ◽

Greek History ◽

Collective Experience ◽

Western European ◽

Collective Narrative

This chapter examines the role of collective narrative in Theo Angelopoulos' films from the 1970s. It begins with the premise that ‘our failure to grant Theo Angelopoulos the position he deserves in modern cinema’ stems from the fact that modern Greek history remains ‘far less familiar than that of the Western European countries’. It argues that ‘Greece has gone through a collective experience of which most other modern nations have only known bits and pieces’, and considers some of the ways that Angelopoulos depicts this experience as a kind of modern epic. The chapter analyses some of Angelopoulos' first films, including The Travelling Players, Reconstruction and The Hunters.

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Recent Publications on Medieval and Modern Greek History, 1928-1931

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1838213 ◽

1932 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 272

Author(s):

William Miller

Keyword(s):

Modern Greek ◽

Greek History

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E. PREVELAKIS AND K. KALLIATAKI MERTICOPOULOU, ED., Epirus, Ali Pasha and the Greek Revolution: Consular Reports of William Meyer from Preveza, 2 vols. Monuments of Greek History No. 12 (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1996). Pp. 636 for vol. 1, 389 for vol. 2.

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743800002415 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 297-300

Author(s):

Molly Greene

Keyword(s):

Research Centre ◽

The Public ◽

Archival Material ◽

Modern Greek ◽

Greek History ◽

Foreign Office ◽

History Of ◽

Public Record ◽

One Year

This lengthy two-volume work is part of a long-term Greek project to make foreign archives concerning modern Greek history more accessible to researchers in Greece. Professor Eleutherios Prevelakis, who passed away one year before the publication of these volumes, became the director of the Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens in 1963. This position allowed him to conceive and carry through his program of collecting in microfilm form British archival material of relevance to modern Greece. The two volumes under review grew out of the work that he and Professor Merticopoulou conducted over many years in the archives of the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, which are stored in the Public Record Office.

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The Finlay Library

The Annual of the British School at Athens ◽

10.1017/s0068245400010558 ◽

1925 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 46-66

Author(s):

William Miller

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

General Public ◽

War Of Independence ◽

Modern Greek ◽

Review Articles ◽

British School ◽

Greek History ◽

Byzantine History

The study of mediaeval, Turkish and modern Greek history now attracts considerable attention in Athens. Important works upon these periods have been recently published by Greek scholars; lectures upon Byzantine history in particular are crowded not merely by students, but also by the general public, and several newspapers make a special feature of articles by specialists on social life in the reign of Otho. In these circumstances it is fortunate that the British School has possessed since 1899 the Finlay library, to which the adjacent library of M. Gennadios, opened in April, now provides a worthy counterpart.The Finlay library, of which I speak from some two years' work among its shelves, consists, apart from general literature and travels, mainly of four divisions: (1) books used by Finlay for the Byzantine, Trapezuntine, Frankish and Turkish periods of his history; (2) books about the War of Independence and the reign of Otho; (3) a collection of Greek newspapers; and (4) Finlay's review articles, Times' correspondence, diaries and other documents. Of these the first section is nowadays the least important. Since Finlay's death much has been published about the Byzantine, Frankish and Turkish times, and the Empire of Trebizond, which renders some of his sources inadequate or obsolete.

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