Liberty’s Odyssey with Paschalis M. Kitromilides

In May 2024, American Philosophical Society and Stockton University's Dean C. And Zoë Pappas Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies held the Rev. Dr. Demetrios J. Constantelos Memorial Lecture.
At this lecture, Dr. Paschalis M. Kitromilides discussed the reception of American ideas of liberty and constitutional government in the literature of the Greek Enlightenment, especially during its climax in the first two decades of the 19th century, and in the culture and political thought of the Greek Revolution in the 1820s. He devoted special attention to the commentaries on the American practice of liberty in the writings of Adamantios Korais and to the symbolic significance of the emblematic presence of Benjamin Franklin in Greek revolutionary culture.