Byron's poem: "Greece" 6
Introduction 9

A. THE PAGAN FACE
Early - Stone Age 13
Late - Stone Age 15
The Bronze Era 18
The Iron Age 21
The Geometric periode 21
The Archaic period 30
The Classical period 36
The Hellenistic period 52
The period of the Roman Domination 55
B. THE CHRISTIAN FACE
Evangelisation of Greece 61
The Byzantine period 73
The period of the Turkish domination 91
The period of the War of Independence 99
The period of Independent Greece 113
The absolute Monarchy 114
The period of Constitutional Monarchy 116
The period of the 1st Republic 125
The period of the II World War 129
Greece after 1950 146
The Biblical outline of the Modern Greek civilization on the way of its shaping 151
Epilogue 15-6
Byzantine hymn of the Cross 159
Museums of Greece 161
APPENDIX ABOUT MODERN GREEK CULTURE
Information about the Modern Greek culture 166
Some of the most famous painters of Modern Greece 168
Some of the most famous sculptors of Modern Greece 168
Some composers of classical Greek Music 169
Some writers and poets of Modern Greece 170
Bibliography 172