In header which is the emblematic monument in the courtyard of the National Technical University of Athens young and old today leave a flower, honoring them fighters of the 1973 uprising.
For those who don't know, the head has a different history from that of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising. However, it has been established as a monument to students everywhere who fought against totalitarian regimes.
Who is represented by the head in the Polytechnic
The famous head at the Polytechnic is a work by the sculptor Memos Makris, a National Resistance fighter during the German occupation, who was stripped of his Greek citizenship in 1964. The head on the Polytechnic is in the form of the head of Professor Nikos Svoronos, an important Greek historian.
Who was Nikos Svoronos
Nikos Svoronos studied at the Athens School of Philosophy and then joined the ranks of EAM and the EL.AS, where he served as military commander of Byron-Kaesarianis.
In December 1945 Svoronos fled to France, where he met Memos Makris. In 1955 he was stripped of his Greek citizenship and in 1961 he acquired French citizenship.
On his return to Greece after the dictatorship, Svoronos taught at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Crete, was a member of the steering committee of the University of Crete and director of research at the National Research Foundation, and was awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens (1976) and Thessaloniki (1977). He died on 26 April 1989.
