by Polyvia Parara, On March 25, 2021 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, a bloody revolution for the Greeks’ freedom from the despotism of the Ottoman Empire. Is it important to examine the content of the Greeks’ freedom – that is, to highlight its historical path and in what form and substance the value of freedom was established in the Greek communities under the Ottoman Empire. Dionysios Solomos, in his poetic composition “The Free Besieged,” introduced the idea of man, who, although subjugated physically, maintains his moral freedom intact. “Your power is an ocean. My will is a rock,” which means that… Διαβάστε περισσότερα
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