Romeiko, or the Greek Reconquista: Greek Revolutionary Mythos as Synthesis of Byzantium and Hellas
Carlos Perona Calvete
May 5, 2022
It is spurious to insist, as many do, on a contradiction between conceiving of Greek independence through a yearning for the Byzantine past, on the one hand, and the romantic-nationalist lionizing of ancient Hellas, on the other.
