1. Introduction. Post-junta Greece: the historical context. The legal recognition of political parties of the far Left.
2. Literature under military dictatorship (1967-1974). The introduction of preventive censorship. The public statement of George Seferis (1969) against the regime. The publication of the volume Eighteen Texts (1970) «in which writers clearly found, as well as safety in numbers, a common purpose, despite the variety of their ages, backgrounds, artistic aims, and political allegiances, in using their art to combat the perceived threat of imposed self-censorship» (R. Beaton). The publication of the volumes New Texts and New Texts 2 (1972).
3. «Generation of 1970». Poetry. Yannis Kontos, The Chronometer (1972). Jenny Mastoraki, Tolls (1972). Nasos Vayenas, Field of Mars. Rea Galanaki, Albeit Pleasing. The compilations entitled Deposition ’73 (1973) and Deposition ’74 (1974).
4. «The Greek poets of the early 1970s eschew all assumption of a hierarchy of values, and build their poetry to a large extent out of juxtapositions which are striking, epigrammatic, often parodic, but which characteristically resist resolution or synthesis» (Beaton, An Introduction…, 270). Yannis Kontos, «Ariadne’s Thread». Jenny Mastoraki, «[The Wooden Horse…]».
5. Lefteris Poulios, «American bar in Athens». The echoing of the «beat generation» (Beaton, An
Introduction…, 272). Vasilis Stergiadis, Mr Ivo (1970), The Private Plane (1971).
7. Poetry and Music. «The resurgence of the“popular art song” which married words by established poets to musical structures that derived simultaneously from the long-despised music from the urban poor and from the music of the Greek church» (Beaton, 273). Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Stavros Xarhakos, Yannis Markopoulos, Christodoulos Chalaris, Eleni Karaindrou, Dionisis Savvopoulos. Yannis Ritsos- Odysseas Elytis and their cooperation with Mikis Theodorakis.
8. Odysseas Elytis, The Light Tree (1971), The Monogram (1971), The Half-Siblings (1974), Maria Nefeli (1978), The Little Sailor (1985) etc.
9. Prose fiction after 1974. Recent political history and a new style of writing. Aris Alexandrou, The Box (1974).
10. Margarita Lymberaki, The Rite (1976). Alexandros Kotzias, Usurped Authority (1979).
11. Maro Douka, Fool’s Gold (1979). Margarita Karapanou, Cassandra and the Wolf (1977).
12. The experience of exile: Alki Zei, Achilles’ Fiancée (1987).
13. Yoryis Yatromanolakis, History (1982). Evgenia Fakinou, The Seventh Garment (1983). Rea Galanaki, The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha (1989).
4. 13. Fiction and History. Thanassis Valtinos, Orthokosta (1994). Synaxari Andrea Kordopati. Book
II. Balkan Wars-’22 (2000). New Moon. Day first (2022).
