Notes

INTRODUCTION: THE NATION AND ITS ANCESTORS

1. Giorgos Seferis, Δοκιμές [Essays], vol. 3, ed. D. Daskalopoulos (Athens: Ikaros, 1992), 167 (original in French).

2. Speech by Melina Mercouri to the Oxford Union, 12 June 1986 (original emphasis) <http://www.parthenon.newmentor.net/speech.htm> (accessed 27 February 2018).

3. Loukia Droulia, ‘Towards modern Greek consciousness’, The Historical Review / La Revue Historique (Institute for Neohellenic Research, Athens) 1 (2004), 51–67 (see p. 51). For the original Greek text see the website of the Hellenic Parliament.

4. Kostis Palamas, Άπαντα [Complete Works], 17 vols (Athens: Biris, n.d.), vol. 6, 279.

5. Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (London: John Murray, 1966), 96–101, 106–13; Michael Herzfeld, Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology and the Making of Modern Greece (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1982), 18–21.

6. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (London: Simon and Schuster, 2002; first published 1996), 162.

7. Stathis Kalyvas, Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 34.

8. David Brewer, Greece: The Hidden Centuries. Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010).

9. Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, 3 vols (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971; first published 1951–4), vol. 3, 130.