ABSTRACT
The notion of nation as seen in the texts written in the mid-nineteenth century that is, after the establishment of the Greek state is a starting point for evaluating the disparity between the heroic past of the national struggle and the present state of frustrated expectations. It is a commonplace to say that in the nineteenth-century the Greek national ideal of restoring the Greek nation as a political entity is by definition multifaceted. Fotakos, as he was usually known in his lifetime, was a Peloponnesian fighter in the Revolution and is chiefly remembered as Kolokotronis's adjutant. What makes his narrative particularly interesting is the fact that the author wishes to present himself more as historian than autobiographer. The son of a wealthy tradesman of Kozani, a town in western Macedonia, Kasomoulis was an outside' Greek, in the sense that he did not come from the centre of the Revolution: the Peloponnese, Roumeli, or the Western Aegean islands.
