Key Aspects of the Greek History
Published on 30. March 2026
978-3-389-18509-4 (ISBN)
Description
Scientific Study from the year 2026 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, University of the People (History and Archaeology Department), course: History of Greece, language: English, abstract: Greek History as a whole is complex and difficult to understand. What is the difference between mainly Greece and Hellenism? Why was the capital of the Roman Empire moved to Constantinople and how did the Greeks become "Romans"? Why did the Byzantine Empire collapse? What was the deepest cause of the Greek Revolution? How is it explained that the Greek version of Fascism was invented by Great Britain?
The Greek Mediaeval History is a complicated question. For it is necessary to make the distinction between Greece proper and the Eastern Roman Empire, alias the Byzantine one. The latter's saga has been the object of extensive research so far. And, on an international scale, numerous brilliant scholars occupied themselves with it. Consequently, only a brief overview will be attempted in the present essay.
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Dimitris Michalopoulos was born in Athens, in 1952. After graduating from the Italian School of Athens (1970) and from the History and Archaeological Department of the University of Athens (1974), he obtained his Ph.D. in 1978, in Paris, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. From 1982 to 1994 he taught Diplomatic History and Balkan Issues at the Law School of the University of Salonica (first as a lecturer and afterwards as an assistant professor); during the years 1989 - 1997 he taught Naval and European History at the Naval War College of Greece. During the years 1990-2000 he was the director of the Museum of the City of Athens and from 2004 to 2011 acting director to the "Historical Institute for Studies on Eleutherios Venizelos and his Era". Now he is academic advisor to the "Institute of Hellenic Maritime History", Piraeus.
