Nominated for the audience awards Skroutz Book Awards 2025.
So, sciences did not start in ancient Greece? Nor did the Minoans speak Greek? The Troy that Schliemann discovered was not the real one? In ancient Athens, homosexuals did not lose their political rights? Nor did Harmodius and Aristogeiton kill the tyrant Hipparchus for political reasons?
Archimedes did not run naked through the streets – against the laws and every sacred place – shouting “Eureka! Eureka!”? Nor did the people of Chios walk in pairs so that the Ottomans wouldn’t force them to carry each other on their shoulders?
Soon you’ll tell us that Napoleon wasn’t Greek after all! That the stripes on our flag do not symbolize the phrase “Freedom or Death.” Maybe even the clarinet isn’t a Greek instrument?
Will you claim that Greeks also emigrated illegally? That Asia Minor was not lost because “the Allies betrayed us?” That the Battle of Crete did not delay Hitler’s advance into the Soviet Union?
That no Evzone fell from the Acropolis wrapped in the Greek flag, in front of the Nazis? Maybe even Greek football teams didn’t play friendly matches with the occupiers? Nor was the Junta organized by the Americans?
Why do you hate our myths so much? Here are a few more short stories about big misunderstandings.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Stayros Panagiotidis
- Publisher
- Kedros
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
- -
- Type
- Ακαδημαϊκή Ιστορία
- Theme
- Modern and Contemporary Greece, Ancient Greece, History of America
- Time Period
- Ottoman Period
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Release Date
- 10/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 11x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600454918
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