“The publishing activity of Rigas had obvious political aspirations. It aimed at planting the seed of a revolutionary attempt that would overthrow ottoman despotism and would lead to the independence of Greeks and other Balkan peoples. Its publishing plans in the years 1796 – 1797 were the final stage of an enlightenment agenda that aimed at preparing morally and psychologically of this utmost endeavour. Rigas did not aim only at fostering the morals of Greek patriotism through the political classicism, which was popular with modernized classes of Greek society, particularly with enlightened intellectuals, the learned young people and the active politicised Greeks of the Diaspora; he attempted to go further, beyond these social groups that were the natural allies in this endeavour, transmitting the message of national independence to the wider masses of Greek society, expressed in a language familiar to them and using symbols they could understand. The portrait of Alexander was an appropriate means to approach the social psychology of a wider audience”. (pp. 54-55)

“The plans and visions of Rigas constitute the most eloquent expression of the fermentation generated by the French Revolution in Greek political thought and in general to the Balkan society. The great achievement is that he managed to perceive a general social feeling of uplift and hope and expressed it with the particular intellectual and political terms that could best capture it: that was the language of the Greek democratic patriotism. From a theoretical point of view his achievement was important because it combined the desire for radical social change with the deep moral personality reform”. (p.  97)

“Θούριος translated the principles and the aspirations of the political theory of Rigas into a language that could touch the sensitivity of popular masses. And at this point Rigas followed the practice-oriented political thought that had already directed his plans since the time of the first conception”. (p.  99)