Byzantium is both a city and an empire. The strange fate of the once humble city of the Bosphorus quickly created the legend. Byzantium-Constantinople, destined to become the capital of the first Christian empire, was considered from the beginning a work of divine inspiration [...] and the founding of the city chosen by God was considered to symbolize the founding of the Christian empire. Christian historiography created the legend of the holy city of Constantinople as an answer, one might say, to the idolatrous legend of the founding of Rome [...] Thus, with Constantinople, a new world enters History...

Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler's book "The Political Ideology of the Byzantine Empire" has unanimously garnered praise from international critics. "It should be an indispensable aid for every student of Greek history and every person concerned with modern Greek history and culture," wrote "Vima" on April 18, 1976. And with the same conviction, we offer it today with pride to the Greek audience.