THE CHRONICLE OF GEORGIOS KODINOS

The Greek nation, in the succession of centuries, had as a blessing the gift of the radical to constantly reduce the identity of its nationality to a universal identity either with classical antiquity or with Orthodoxy.

Hagia Sophia is the second seal that captures the transition from the ancient Greek world to the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world and becomes an emblem of the history of the new Hellenism, as well as its importance is subtly charged with the redemptive promise of the Great Idea.