For various reasons related to their historical processes, Ibero-American societies have had a conflicted relationship with their pasts, refusing to recognize the archetypal, proto-historical time status of the meta-narratives effectively contained in the traditions of their real ancestors (Indians, Blacks, and Iberians). They then replaced it by granting an external culture the status of predecessor to their own.

Certain phenomena determined that the chosen one was Hellenic Antiquity, which constituted for Ibero-America, "not only an aesthetic and philosophical model (as it was for the Renaissance), or a political and ideological one (as it happened with the Enlightenment) but an adoptive mother, loved as one loves a non-blood child, but for whom one may care perhaps more diligently since it represents the hope of compensating for the fruitlessness marked by fate."

The book "Ibero-American Meanders" (Ιβηροαμερικανικοί Μαίανδροι) is the result of nine years of research on the peculiarities of the literary dialogue between Greece - primarily Ancient, but not only - and Ibero-America. This research shows that Greece was from the very beginning of the establishment of the "New World" the "good example" that nations should follow for their self-identification.

Greece has functioned - and still functions - as a mirror through which Ibero-Americans become aware of their image. Depending on the times, Homer, Plato, Heraclitus, Ancient Religion, and even Jean Moreas have become the inspiration for many writers from Ibero-America. This book offers relevant analyses particularly for the works of: Ruben Dario, J.C. Onetti, J.J. Olmedo, G. Prieto, J. Zorrilla de San Martín, C. Drummond de Andrade, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Leopoldo Zea, Alejo Carpentier.

One chapter is dedicated to Seferis and presents the differences and coincidences in the dialogue between both New and Ancient Greece as well as Ancient Greece and Ibero-America. "Ibero-American Meanders" is a scholarly book that, nevertheless, remains accessible to those who are curious about the issues it treats.

It also serves as a tribute to the fraternal bond between Greece and Latin America, to the link between two continents, which continues to be encircled and united by the "impassable" Ocean, according to Homer.