Photo: Yiannis Soulis
Adults, Talks, Educational Program
Rigas' Charta: bidding farewell to the nation
Dates
Tickets
Free admission
Venue
Onassis Library
Time & Date
Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 21 February
Time
18:30 - 20:30
Venue
Onassis Library (Amalias 56)
Introduction
A lecture about a cultural relic of national importance: Rigas Velestinlis’s “Charta (Map) of Greece.”
Photo: Yiannis Soulis
Rigas' Charta is definitely the best-known map of Greece and almost the only one to have given rise to a commentary.
The sheer audacity of the move to publish a map of Greece after centuries of cartographic silence, its monumental size and visual complexity, its links to Rigas' patriotic and revolutionary activities, and its maker's martyrish death just months after its completion, they all all make Rigas' Charta a national treasure.
Credit
Speaker
Dr George Tolias, Research Director at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (EIE), Direct of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (Sorbonne)
