What is considered Modern Greece?

[kosta_karapinotis]

So, I always assumed that Modern Greece referred to the time period starting with the War for Independence.

Then, Ancient Greece, I always assumed, ended in BC times.

What about all those periods in between? Is this too simplistic of a way to look at it? How do people classify all the phases of Greek history?

 

[Luana]

Good question. Thought modern Greece was everything after the Civil War. I could be wrong.

 

[kosta_karapinotis]

Good question. Thought modern Greece was everything after the Civil War. I could be wrong.

I think you might be right! Maybe the time in between ancient and modern is named according to whatever was going on - like Byzantine, Ottoman... ?

 

[k_tsoukalas]

I think you might be right! Maybe the time in between ancient and modern is named according to whatever was going on - like Byzantine, Ottoman... ?

I think this is the case, and I feel like all that history - Byzantine and Ottoman - seems to get glossed over.

 

[amygdalE]

I think this is the case, and I feel like all that history - Byzantine and Ottoman - seems to get glossed over.

I tend to agree with you. What you mention might be called the Greek MIDDLE AGES. IT started with two revolutions: the transition from myth-making to Christian revelation and from the inflected ancient language to the modern Greek language.