A Bi-lingual Reading/Performance

Yannis Simonides presents, in Greek and English, excerpts from the memoirs of General Makriyannis, the legendary military leader who at a young age emerged as a key general of the Greek Revolutionary army, and afterwards as one of the founders of the Modern Greek State and a formidable politician. Makriyannis learned to read and write expressly in order to produce this extraordinary document of the period during and after the Greek War of Independence. On the basis of his Memoirs, his only opus, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important Greek literary figures of the last two centuries.

The performance is accompanied by recorded 'kleftika tragoudia' and a power-point presentation of images of the Revolution.

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