The historical views in the texts of this volume will be found circulating more broadly in the time of Kostis Papagiorgis. Some of them are part of a long historical genealogy that has been interwoven over time from Makrygiannis to Zisis Lorentzatou.

One way, therefore, is to examine these texts in the context of the ideological confrontations of the post-dictatorship period regarding 1821 and the overall trajectory of the Greek state. Despite their differences, the individual perspectives shared a common assumption: they both considered that popular culture was in dissonance with the western-imported institutions.

While some may have seen this as a problem of the institutions themselves that were imposed from outside, for others it was an issue of the "people" and their mentality, which historically resisted the modernizing standards of the Western-fed domestic elites. Papagiorgis participates in this confrontation with his usual "sacred rage," always captivated by the richness of a popular culture, "fragments" of which have survived only minimally.

And his constant concern has always been the restoration of their memory.