A story can belong to humanity while still recognising the people and language from which it first emerged.
We say this not in anger, but in recognition.
Because too often, Greek history is treated as something that ended rather than something that continued. As if Greece exists only in a classical past, rather than through Byzantine continuity, through Ottoman endurance, through revolutionary rebirth, and into the present day; in cities, villages, islands, and diaspora communities across the world.
So as you step into Homer’s world – into seas, wanderings, gods, and returning kings – we ask that you carry this awareness with you:
That Greece is not only a setting in antiquity.
It is a living country.
Greek people are not historical figures. We are contemporaries.
And when future opportunities arise to tell stories from any period of Greek history – ancient, medieval, or modern – we hope you will remember that Greek heritage is not absent from those stories. It is present, living, and still speaking for itself.