modern-greece

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.

__ιθ_μίε_Σαν __μα_α __αία νεκ__ν _ο_ δεν εγέ_α_ανκαι _άκλει_αν, με δάκ__α, _ε μα___λείο λαμ___,με __δα __ο κε_άλι και __α __δια για_εμιά --έ__' η ε_ιθ_μίε_ μοιάζο_ν _ο_ ε_έ_α_αν___ί_ να εκ_λη__θο_ν· ___ί_ ν' αξι_θεί καμιά_η_ ηδονή_ μια ν___α, ή ένα ____ _η_ _εγγε__."Desires"Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown oldand they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet --this is what desires resemble that have passedwithout fulfillment; without any of them having achieveda night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.