The conference “Logos and the Composition of the History of Modern Greek Literature: 18th – 19th century” was held in Athens on 13-14 December 2019. The volume contains the edited version of the papers presented at the conference. On the occasion of the conference, the exhibition “In the office of a cosmopolitan scholar of the 19th century. The manuscript notebooks of Christoforos Filitas” by the Library of the Parliament, coordinated by Elli Droulia and curated by Angela Karapanou.

The case of the Epirus scholar and teacher Christoforos Filitas (1787 -1867) gives the opportunity to open once again the debate on the genealogy of the history of modern Greek literature and on the demands of 19th century Greek scholarship on the historiography of the intellectual movement of the Nation from the Fall of Constantinople onwards.