Greek Resistance Research Articles

Greek Resistance Theatre in World War II

The Greek resistance movement, supported and directed by EAM (Ethnikon Apeleftherotikon Metopon—the National Liberation Front) in the mountains of Greece under the German occupation of World War II, spawned a popular resistance theatre that schooled itself among the people and brought a measure of political enlightenment to peasants in the mountain villages, who had small exposure to theatre. Those who went to market saw some Karaghiozis—Greek shadow puppet theatre—and those who attended religious festivals occasionally saw Lenten plays. Secular theatre was sometimes performed in tents in provincial villages and refugee settlements.Because, in the beginning, artists would not come into the mountains to write songs for the struggle or to dramatize events, the andartes, or mountain fighters, began to write and perform. Their intention initially was to familiarize the people with their work and to develop friendly territories in which they could operate freely.

The origins of the Achaean War

The Achaean war against Rome in 146 continues to provoke befuddlement and perplexity. Few problems in antiquity have proved so intractable to solution. The event was of major import: the last futile outburst of Greek resistance to Roman power, calling forth a new era, an enforced reorganisation of Greece and its subjugation, for all practical purposes, to the Roman governor of Macedon. Greek independence was thereafter chimerical. Yet the origins and motivations for that fateful struggle remain as puzzling as ever. Understandably so. A half century earlier, the Achaean League had thrown off allegiance to Macedon and opted for collaboration with Rome. A formal alliance followed in subsequent years. Relations between the two powers were sometimes rocky, but never issued in overt conflict during that half-century. In the three great eastern wars of the second century, against Philip V, Antiochus III, and Perseus, Rome and Achaea were on the same side. Yet in 146, when Rome's military might should have been incontestable, the Achaeans engaged her in a suicidal and ruinous war that brought the dissolution of the old League and the overlordship of Rome. Small wonder that the episode causes bafflement.

The Mission of Amphoterus and the Outbreak of Agis' War

MUCH ATTENTION has recently been devoted to the ill-fated war which the Spartan king, Agis III, waged against the Macedonian domination of Greece.' Rightly so, for the episode is of crucial importance in determining the strength of Greek resistance to the military and political predominance of Macedon and still more in assessing the priorities of Alexander the Great, once he had turned his back on the Mediterranean seaboard. Unfortunately the extant sources are deficient and inconsistent in matters of chronology, and two rival constructions have emerged. On one hypothes:, the revolt in the Peloponnese began in the spring of 331 B.c. and continued until autumn of the same year.2 Alternatively, it is argued, the war began in late summer, 331, and continued into the campaigning season of 330.3 The interval between these two chronological outlines is only a few months, but the period is perhaps the most momentous of Alexander's whole reign, the period during which the king moved from Egypt to Ecbatana. It is obviously crucial to determine at what point Alexander heard that full-scale war had broken out in the Peloponnese, for only then can we determine the effectiveness of his response to the emergency. In my opinion a sure terminus post quem can be established,

Roman Imperialism and the Greek Resistance

Roman Imperialism and the Greek Resistance

An Addendum on Greek Resistance

AbstractThe author of “Report on the Military Rule and the Greek Universities” (September Bulletin) has written to us as follows.

The Greek National Liberation Front (EAM): A Study in Resistance Organization and Administration

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Greek National Liberation Front (EAM): A Study in Resistance Organization and AdministrationL. S. StavrianosL. S. Stavrianos Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 24, Number 1Mar., 1952 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/237474 Views: 16Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1952 The University of Chicago PressPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou Civil Wars and Cinematic Narrative: The Case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009), (Oct 2017): 129–149.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61179-2_8Vasilios Ioakimidis Expanding imperialism, exporting expertise: International social work and the Greek project, 1946—74, International Social Work 54, no.44 (Jul 2011): 505–519.https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872810385832Janet Hart Women in the Greek Resistance: National Crisis and Political Transformation, International Labor and Working-Class History 38 (Dec 2008): 46–62.https://doi.org/10.1017/S014754790001019X

Greek Resistance Army

Greek Resistance Army

The Destiny of Greece

TluTith respect to the charges of degeneracy and corruption so * * inconsiderately made against the Greek people, though this may not be the place to refute them, it is yet of importance to observe that, however they may have deplored the succession of calamities commencing with their conquest by the Romans, through the degradation that followed the transfer of the capital to Byzantium, a degradation which the introduction of Christianity did not diminish, down to the last fatal scene that reduced them to a galling and hopeless bondage, the Greeks never lost sight of their imprescriptible rights, or of their former glory. Thus far an English sympathiser, Mr. Edward Blaquiere, as long ago as 1824, when the epic of the war of independence was still warm in the memory of Europe. Romantic and sentimental though they may seem today, these words have remained true of the Greek people. Few other nations have suffered worse misgovernment in our times; few others have had more reason to forget their dignity and pride of country beneath the weight of military dictatorship and administrative corruption. Again, in the last few years, the dictatorship of Metaxas, harsh and heavy, utterly unenlightened, was followed by the bitter occupation of the Italians and later of the Germans. Greece was taken from the map; and yet, man by man and company by company, there arose the elements of a guerrilla army which pinned the invaders to their garrisons and lines of communication. The spirit of independence which attracted Byron had surged vividly to life again. This people would live. The Greeks emerged from the toils of the second world war with a regained sense of pride and independence. But it was precisely then, while the war in Europe was still at its height and Rundstedt was hammering at the Allied lines in the Ardennes, that the gains of Greek resistance and liberation seemed at once lost in the turmoil of civil war. Fighting between the British troops which went into Greece on the heels of the retreating Germans, and ELAS, the army of the resistance, broke out in Athens in December, 1944; and continued until ELAS gave in a

Victors in Chains: Greek Resistance, 1942-3

Victors in Chains: Greek Resistance, 1942-3

Victors in Chains. Greek Resistance 1942–1943

Victors in Chains. Greek Resistance 1942–1943