Wednesday 20 June 2012

Dr. Theodore Stephanides, Corfu Plaque


"I loved that island home of mine too well,
Too well I loved each cape, each rock, each tree;
Each had become a living nerve of me,
A fibre of my soul, another spell
To fetter me to Ithaca's sweet shore".

From "Odysseus" by Dr. Theodore Stephanides (The Golden Age, Fortune Press, 1965).

I opened the first chapter of my book "The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History" (Signal Books, Oxford, 2010; Oxford University Press, USA, 2010) with that quotation.

Athens News article about the plaque

Re plaque (above): a pity about the missing "l" in Durrell.


About Theodore Stephanides

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