GSA/HISTORICAL ARCHIVES – MUSEUM OF HYDRA and Patakis Publications are organizing the presentation of the book by

LYNTIA TRICHA

“ALEXANDROS MAVROKORDATOS
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE”

The panel conversing about the book

Dina Adamopoulou,
historian-archivist, president of the GSA/IAMY Management Agency

Nikos Alivizatos,
professor emeritus of constitutional law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Dimitris Sotiropoulos,
professor at the University of the Peloponnese, president of the GAK Ephorate

and the author

About the book: 

The title of this book could well be “Alexander Mavrokordatos: The Wronged Man of History.”

Mavrokordatos was and continues to be an extremely charming personality, but also a particularly wronged one, as he is considered one of the most controversial figures in modern Greek history.

Mavrokordatos was and continues to be an extremely charming personality, but also a particularly wronged one, as he is considered one of the most controversial politicians of his time. However, today, two hundred years after the Greek Revolution, with the re-evaluation of people and events, it is now confirmed that he was a unique figure. He is one of the most gifted Greeks and one of our most important politicians, a moderniser, a liberal, highly educated and deeply constitutional, who identified more than anyone else with the constitutional developments of the country.

The narrative of his life is no different from the plot of a novel. His journey from Constantinople to the Danubian Principalities, Central Europe, and Greece can be described as a journey from the Ottoman world of Phanariot officials to the reborn Greek world, via cosmopolitan Europe.

Mavrokordatos is portrayed here not only as a political figure, but also as a human being. The serious side, with constitutional theories, government programs, and diplomatic relations, coexists with the less serious side, with clothing and culinary habits, musical preferences, and leisure time. But the book is not strictly limited to recounting his life; it also describes his surroundings. Thus, Mavrokordatos also serves as a narrative vehicle for conveying an image of the society in which he operated.