A cause célèbre in its day, the Greek fight for independence inspired revolutionaries across Europe.
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| ‘Georgios Karaiskakis in the Battle of the Acropolis’ (ca. 1835) by Georg Perlberg. |
PHOTO: THE THANASSIS AND MARINA MARTINOS COLLECTION
By David Mason
Pandemic is a Greek word, but in 2021 the Greeks have had more than a virus to commemorate. This year marks the bicentennial of their revolution against the Ottoman Empire, a decadelong war in which a small population fought against overwhelming odds to become the first relatively independent European nation to emerge in the 19th century. As Mark Mazower explains in “The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe”—his superb new history of the rebellion and its broader implications—the uprising “came near the end of a half century of revolution. This epoch of global transformation had begun with the United States successfully shaking off colonial power and it continued with the French overthrow of their monarchy and Haiti’s bid for freedom.
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