The Foundation of the Hellenic World invites you to the lecture by
Maria D. Efthymiou, Emeritus Professor of History at EKPA, on the topic:
"Enduring through time.
Central points in the History of Hellenism"
on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 16:30 to 21:30
at The «Hellenic Cosmos» Cultural Centre
In her lecture, Mrs. Maria D. Efthymiou will discuss the main aspects and turning points in the History of Hellenism from the Mycenaean period to today, focusing on its two central pillars: language and seafaring.
Brief Biography of Maria D. Efthymiou
She was born in Larissa in 1955.
She studied at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA). She completed her postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
She has learned seven foreign languages.
She is an Emeritus Professor of History at EKPA, where she served in faculty positions from 1981 until 2022, when she retired due to the age limit. Over 42 years, she taught thousands of students and supervised hundreds of seminar and postgraduate theses as well as doctoral dissertations.
She has represented Greece in European Union History Committees and has participated, as a university scholar, in dozens of individual and group educational activities related to Secondary and Higher Education.
She has contributed to the Mathesis project of the University of Crete Press with seven modules on Greek and World History (mathesis.cup.gr).
Since 2006, she has been teaching free evening courses on Greek and World History almost daily across Greece, including in prisons and rehabilitation centers. These lectures have been attended by hundreds of thousands of people.
In the spring of 2016, as part of a collaboration between the Athens Concert Hall and the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens, she taught a series of 19 three-hour World History courses at the Athens Concert Hall (recorded on the Blod.gr website, Maria Efthymiou).
She has written and edited six history books, while approximately eighty-five of her articles and studies have been published in history journals, conference proceedings, history inserts, in Greece and abroad. Her opinions and commentaries on academic and social issues have also appeared in daily and periodic press.
She has translated into Greek the poems of the great poet Raquel Angel–Nagler, in five poetry books published by Smili Editions.
In 2013, she was honored with the “Award for Outstanding University Teaching in Memory of B. Xanthopoulos – S. Pneumatikos.”
She is the mother of two exceptional sons, Giorgis and Rigas Hatzilakos, and grandmother to Maya, Elena, Danae, and Daphne.
She had the blessing of being the daughter of two upright individuals, Christina and Dimitris Efthymiou; the sister of a beloved brother, Petros; and a student of a great university teacher and historian, Vasilios Vl. Sfyroeras.
Finally, she has the honor of being part of a circle of warm, substantial, authentic, talented, creative, generous, and bright people – friends, relatives, fellow climbers, rowing companions, dance partners, fellow singers, dreamers, discussants, and colleagues.
