Searching for Europe in the years after the Revolution
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Searching for Europe in the years after the Revolution
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20 May 2021
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Europe as an idea and as a reality, is one of the most important legacies of the Greek Revolution. The multiple faces and the different perceptions of this vague political, ideological, cultural, geographical entity, express the very contradictions of the young kingdom. For its inhabitants, Europe will be a central point of reference; the power to which they owed their independence, the example according to which they had to construct their state, the “observer” in front of whom they felt that they had to answer to seeking praise or fearing rejection. At the same time, however, it will become the recipient of their dissatisfaction for the non-solution of their problems and mainly for its attitude towards the fulfilment of the Great Idea.
The aim of the lecture is to highlight how the Greeks perceived the role of Europe after the creation of the state. Their reactions to the decline of philhellenism, the “demands” that the “spoiled children of history” had from the guarantor Powers to support the Greek kingdom politically and diplomatically, thus redeeming their intellectual debt to the ancient Greek heritage.
In the three major issues that preoccupied the Greeks in the first decades after their independence, the Constitution, the church issue and irredentism, the faces of Europe, as a model, threat and protector respectively, emerged mainly through the press, and with the main criterion the role that, based on the political situation, was attributed to the “protecting” Powers that they played or did not play in the first steps of the independent Greek state.
(Edited and translated description from organiser’s website)
The aim of the lecture is to highlight how the Greeks perceived the role of Europe after the creation of the state. Their reactions to the decline of philhellenism, the “demands” that the “spoiled children of history” had from the guarantor Powers to support the Greek kingdom politically and diplomatically, thus redeeming their intellectual debt to the ancient Greek heritage.
In the three major issues that preoccupied the Greeks in the first decades after their independence, the Constitution, the church issue and irredentism, the faces of Europe, as a model, threat and protector respectively, emerged mainly through the press, and with the main criterion the role that, based on the political situation, was attributed to the “protecting” Powers that they played or did not play in the first steps of the independent Greek state.
(Edited and translated description from organiser’s website)
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