What does the Country of the Past look like on the turbulent and unstable surfaces of social media? In what ways does a society like the Greek one process its History — and its stories — in the "age of the platform";?

What adventures do historical culture and social empathy with time embark on in a world learning to assemble its meanings through faint, neural, and repetitive movements of thousands of fingertips over countless screens;

This book confronts these questions by introducing the concept of an epidemic. It offers an interpretation of social media as an epidemic landscape, within which, among other things, both the re-reading of the past and the overall production of dominant spatiotemporal sensations unfold.

On its pages, "the words and the things" of the epidemic become keys attempting to unlock the ways in which the historical past is transformed into content, into a desirable, everyday claim on the screens of Facebook, Instagram, X, or TikTok.