Why are there statues, busts, streets, and squares commemorating Eleftherios Venizelos in almost every city in Greece? Why do so many politicians invoke him when they want to lend prestige and historical weight to their speeches? And, mostly, how did we arrive at this point of his acceptance, when the National Schism and the division of the country into two have preceded it?

The book reconstructs the journey of transforming Venizelos from a living memory into a political and national symbol through archives, texts of all kinds, historiographical works, rituals, and monuments, connecting different threads of collective memory and historical consciousness from the Interwar period to the dictatorship of 1967.

Political conflicts, historiographical interpretations, and ritual commemorations are recorded and analyzed, through which the mosaic of the multiple faces of Venizelos in post-war Greece is revealed and examines who invoked him, when, how, and why.

Overall, through the transformation of Venizelos into a symbol, the entanglement of the two major divisions of 20th-century Greece, the National Schism and the Civil War, emerges, and the very relationship of post-war Greek society with its pre-war past is outlined.