From the refugee houses in Vyronas, where she still lives, and the mountains of Sterea, as an Epionitaki, in the center of Paris, Rector of all the Universities of Paris, Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler had a turbulent and interesting life. She herself titles it "without alibi" because many times she moved on the boundaries of the times with risk and audacity.

Through her narration, we discern a fighter of life and science. Whether as a secretary of EPON Vyronas or as a professor at Sorbonne during the events of May '68, this petite woman had deep faith in herself and her powers. Her research on Byzantium is her great contribution to modern Hellenism, as she connected her name with the promotion of an era that for years was considered "dark".

A text that delves into the past that defined her and a life lesson for young people who want, as she herself will say, "to have their feet on the ground and their eyes in the sky".

"When they ask me what title I use, I say rector, you can't put anything else. It's what remains. Along with the professors and mother."
"For me, Greece is its History, then its place, and of course my friends".