Politics
He was director-general of antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Culture during the autocratic rule or Regime of the Colonels. The acquaintance he cultivated with the colonels who were in power in Greece, especially the leader of the military junta from 1967 to 1974, Georgios Papadopoulos, was ideologically based. Marinatos was committed to a vision of a well-ordered patriotic country, which he hoped the regime would build. His political affiliation created controversy among his academic peers. Yet, he was fired by the dictator Ioannides in 1973.
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