Rigas' Charta: bidding farewell to the nation

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Library

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 21 February
Time
18:30 - 20:30
Venue
Onassis Library (Amalias 56)

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)