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Journalist Makis Provatas talks to Maria Efthimiou, Associate Professor of History at the University of Athens. Thucydides has said that “History is a philosophy through examples”. At the same time, history is the history of people. These fragile, mortal creatures, exposed to every danger and every overthrow. Of the same people, however, who have, at the same time, mind, thought, will, feelings, goals, selfishness, selflessness, sense of time and sense of death. And that they can intervene in themselves, in nature and in the other. To define and understand, that is, their little life.
This book approaches times and events, individuals and societies, intentions and goals, denials and affirmations. The journeys are inevitably involved with the personal story of Maria Efthymiou, the memories of life and the forces that led her, with so much passion and faith, to the study and teaching of History. A science linked to memory and time – the tireless companions of the individual and group journey of us all. The journey of the book starts from prehistoric times and reaches to the present day. In fact it is not a long time at all … Only a few kilometers …
