The proposal advances the normative hypothesis that the modern Hellenic Republic may be regarded as the continuator state of the Byzantine Republic. Challenging modernization-based readings of the Greek Revolution, it draws on recent Byzantine scholarship, which reconstructs Byzantium as a res publica, and suggests that Ottoman rule amounted to a prolonged illegal occupation rather than a constitutive historical rupture. This hypothesis is explored through three indicia: the survival of state institutions and titles, the case of Maniot Republic as a connecting link, and cultural continuity as a carrier of state identity.
Jason Koutoufaris-Malandrinos (Fri,) studied this question.