"[...] Due to the tremendous crisis that Greece is currently experiencing, I am thinking - as I suppose many other people are as well - about what has happened in recent decades and wondering how and to what extent the choices and policies that were implemented led to the current deadlock. The further back I go in the past, reaching that point in time where I first began to seriously take an interest in Greece, the less predictable the whole thing becomes, and many of the clichés about the roots of the crisis seem less sufficient. And yet, the more I think about it, the more I can now discern how early seeds of the eurozone crisis were appearing scattered everywhere around us."
Mark Mazower

"[...] I believe that in the "Dark Continent" all the problematic aspects that characterize Mazower's work are summarized in the best way possible. It is a work that leaves behind stereotypes, considers nothing as given, and is not a product of strict rules of historical engineering. It is also a work that does not obey any rule of political expediency, despite the fact that it is extremely political."
Kostas Kostis

The texts in this volume were delivered on June 3, 2015, at the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, during the ceremony of conferring Mark Mazower as an honorary doctor of the Department of Economic Sciences of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens.