The Birth of a Nation-State — Season 1, Episode 5: Language and Culture
Documentary • 50 min • 1 season, 14 episodes
Episode synopsis
With intellectuals away from Greece, Church took on the role of the watchful guardian of the Greek language. But equally important for the spreading of Greek language and culture were folk poetry and songs.
About The Birth of a Nation-State
Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A docudrama series that presents the course of Hellenism over the four centuries of Ottoman rule.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Towards the Fall of Constantinople
- E2Sacred War
- E3Administration and Economy in Ottoman Greece
- E4Education and the Role of the Church
- E6Everyday Life in Ottoman Greece
- E7Pre-Revolutionary Movements
- E8Intellectuals’ Struggle & the Greek Diaspora
- E9The Way to Revolution
- E10The Greek Revolution (Part 1)
- E11The Greek Revolution (Part 2)
- E12Sea and Revolution
- E13Free Greece and Kapodistias