Why Greece and not Arvanitovlachia?
To find the answers to this questions we will first look at segments of William St. Clairs book, “That Greece Might Still Be Free” which appeared in my series of articles called “William St. Clair on 19th century Greece and the Modern Greeks”, at; http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/82531 and http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/82785) According to St. Clair “To be Greek was to be a drunkard, a lecher, and, especially, a cheat.” But later by the seventeenth century, as more information was uncovered about a people who once lived on those lands, a new picture began to emerge. In time Europeans, without ever having been to Greece, came to believe that the Ancient and Modern Greeks were one and the same. As more information came out, especially after Lord Byron visited Greece in 1809 and 1810, and, on his return, published the first two cantos of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, the legend of a place called “Ancient Greece” and a people called “Ancient Greeks” began to grow
