March 2021

March 29, 2021 @ 7:30 pm PDT
Free lecture via Zoom

Dr. Dimitri Krallis
Director of the SFU Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies and Associate Professor of Byzantine History at Simon Fraser University

Romioi one day, Greeks the next: Reading 1821 through a Byzantine Prism

We often forget that the people who rebelled against the Ottomans in 1821 saw themselves as Romioi (Romans). At that time few in Greece would have called themselves Hellenes. In fact, most of those Hellenes were Romioi who lived outside Greece proper.

So, what does this fact mean? To understand that we need to look to Byzantium and its legacy. In doing so, the revolt of 1821 acquires a new significance, because it emerges not simply as a struggle for the independence of a Greek nation, but rather as the rebirth and baptism of the Romioi as Greeks.

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This Lecture is Sponsored by the Hellenic Canadian Congress of B.C. in Memory of Professor André Gerolymatos, first Chair of Hellenic Studies at SFU.

The 41st Season of Pharos is generously sponsored by Nick and Maria Panos