Greek historians founded a journal to disrupt the nationalist 3,000-year Greek continuity myth.

Evidence

But Historein, as its sardonic subtitle suggests, had a clear political objective as well, to ‘trouble the well-established ideology of the 3,000 years of the Greek nation.’ — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 803

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: By the 1990s the Greek Left defended nationalist 3,000-year continuity claims. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 805

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