Was he a maker of history, an upholder, an exalter, a moderniser? Or was he a demolitionist, a demolitionist, a road-roller? A shooter of the nation’s vital forces or a feeder of the people’s humbler instincts? In any case…

No matter which stone you lifted in those years, you found him underneath. Omnipresent even in his absence. A single-faced divisive intersection that almost cancelled out all others. A man-myth, a legend for some, a nightmare for others, he left an indelible mark on the collective unconscious of the Greeks and will remain, perhaps in perpetuity, living history. Great, small, “Saint”, “, “Lucifer”, hated, worshipped… Eleftherios Venizelos… A timeless mystery, which Professor Thanasis Diamantopoulos tries to decipher, with exhaustive research of sources and data.