The parliamentary presence of the far right in the country after the crisis has fueled various discussions about its identity and its appeal to the electorate. At the same time, it has led some scholars to seek its roots in the interwar period, when the phenomenon made its presence visible throughout Europe. In this context, this collective volume focuses on a hitherto underestimated historical experience, the dictatorship of August 4th. Its aim is to take seriously the fascistization project of Ioannis Metaxas, exploring a series of questions that have occupied contemporary historiography of the authoritarian regimes of the period: Whether and under what conditions can the Metaxas regime be categorized as fascist? What were its intellectual, ideological, and institutional "borrowings" from other authoritarian projects of the interwar period? In what ways did it attempt to legitimize itself? How did it incorporate significant segments of the Greek population, through institutions such as the EON, into what has been defined as authoritarian mass modern politics? What were its ideological and institutional continuities with the previous parliamentary experience? What was the role of women in the new emerging fascist model? Thus, the scholars of the volume cease to treat this regime as an unclassified "Greek peculiarity," a backward or introverted phenomenon disconnected from international developments. Utilizing under-examined primary sources, they attempt to conceptualize the Metaxas experiment based on recent theoretical developments in fascist studies across a broad thematic (nationalism and propaganda, anti-liberalism and anti-parliamentarism, synthesis of the third way and innovation, gender and femininity, modernity and modernism, biopolitics and eugenics), to identify its ideological and institutional continuities and discontinuities with the previous parliamentary period and to reposition it within the broader interwar experience of authoritarian projects.