In the Name of Luminosity and Transparency

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In the Name of Luminosity and TransparencyThe poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, bringing romantic modernism and structural experimentation to Greece. Collected here are the two speeches Elytis gave on his acceptance of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, which are still strikingly relevant today. He addresses a hypertrophic and atrophic Europe in moral chaos, with as many coexisting

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the dumbness of the deaf

the purpose of the enterprise is to amuse and to stimulate an interest in the ancient world's most remarkable and abundantly documented empire

creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another

Θα μπορέσει ο κύριος Δυνατός να βοηθήσει τον δυνατό Ηρακλή στους άθλους του

in the light of modern work

disguised as a beggar

The speeches have also been chosen for their value as documents of Athenian law

What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common

Alcestis is Euripides's earliest complete work and his only surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

and ‘The Children of Heracles’ examines the conflict between might and right

Ο Ορέστης μαγεύεται από αρώματα και γεύσεις