Bengoli Talk

 What is worth rising up for today  The foreword to the book. This historical essay obviously does not attempt an exhaustive historical record of the very dense events of a 200-year journey, but it is an attempt to draw a diagram of the main conclusions of this journey - but always through the citation of historical events. In other words, this is not an essay of reflection on the Revolution and its continuation in the modern Greek state, but the conclusions and findings are attempted to be inferred from the historical events themselves; in some cases, the study of historical data has completely overturned some of the views of the author. In addition, due to the conciseness of the presentation, in each chapter I insist on those facts that I consider the most characteristic. In the period 1830-1909, The essay includes two unequal parts: The first and most extensive, "The Great Idea", concerns the description of the long Greek revolution against Ottoman rule that begins in 1821...