Modern Greek Culture

- The notions of classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek philology; antiquity, Byzantine and Modern Greek period.
- The issue of continuity and discontinuity in Greek history, culture, language.
- Early Modern Greek history, culture and literature (Greece after 1204; Cretan renaissance culture and literature).
- Greece after 1453; Greeks and Greek culture in the Ottoman empire.
- Greek enlightenment, the war of independence and the emergence of the Modern Greek state; Greek literature in this period.
- Greece in the period between the emergence of the modern state and the Micro-Asiatic catastrophe; the language question, culture and literature in this period.
- Greek culture and literature in the 19th and 20th century; main currents and authors (N. Kazantzakis, O. Elytis, G. Seferis, C. Cavafy).