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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?
 
Good question. Thought modern Greece was everything after the Civil War. I could be wrong.
 
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Luana said:
Good question. Thought modern Greece was everything after the Civil War. I could be wrong.
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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... ?
 
kosta_karapinotis said:
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... ?
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I think this is the case, and I feel like all that history - Byzantine and Ottoman - seems to get glossed over.
 
k_tsoukalas said:
I think this is the case, and I feel like all that history - Byzantine and Ottoman - seems to get glossed over.
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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.
 
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