Volume 15, Number 5 · September 24, 1970
Greece: Tyranny Without a Future
By W.G. Forrest
Barbarism in Greece
by James Becket
Tower, 147 pp., $ .95 (paper)
House Arrest
by Helen Vlachos
Gambit, 183 pp., $6.95
Democracy at Gunpoint: The Greek Front
by Andreas Papandreou
Doubleday, 384 pp., $7.95
The Greek Tragedy
by Constantine Tsoucalas
Penguin, 208 pp., $1.45 (paper)
Philhellenes have never liked Greeks very much, not real Greeks. They worship Greeks as once they were, or as they might soon become, but as they are—well, it's so different from the home life of our own dear Perikles. So Alexander the Great showed his love of Pindar by destroying every other house in Thebes but his. So Flamininus announced that all Greeks should be free, but had to put away quite a few Greeks who happened not to share his view of freedom. So Britain, France, Russia, and the United States over the last century and a half have taken it upon themselves—but that part of the story belongs later.
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