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Banned and restricted books in Greece
13 titles have been banned or restricted in Greece, recorded across 13 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
13
Ban events
13
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
3
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes | -411 | 1 |
| Z | Vassilis Vassilikos | 1966 | 1 |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | 1946 | 1 |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Nikos Kazantzakis | 1955 | 1 |
| Epitaphios | Yannis Ritsos | 1936 | 1 |
| Axion Esti | Odysseas Elytis | 1959 | 1 |
| Journals of Resistance | Mikis Theodorakis | 1973 | 1 |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 | 1 |
| The High Mountains | Zacharias Papantoniou | 1918 | 1 |
| Life in the Tomb | Stratis Myrivilis | 1924 | 1 |
| Antigone | Sophocles | — | 1 |
| The Republic | Plato | -380 | 1 |
| M to the Power of N | Mimis Androulakis | 2000 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 11
- Religious / blasphemy
- 4
- Sexual content
- 1
By decade
1930s6
1960s6
2000s1
Documented bans
All 13 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Lysistrata1967
Z1967
Zorba the Greek1967
The Last Temptation of Christ1967
Axion Esti1967
Journals of Resistance1967
On the Origin of Species1937
Epitaphios1936
The High Mountains1936
Life in the Tomb1936
Antigone1936
The Republic1936
M to the Power of N2000
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.