In the beginning there was darkness
(Alcmanian cosmology)
So, what had Adonis and Anna seen?
Next day, Anna and Adonis met their teacher at the public gardens of Drama, just in front of the ‘Freedom Monument’. They knew this monument well, since whenever their teacher told them anything about the struggles of man, and the meaning of freedom and democracy, he always referred to this monument. It was a simple monument but with an immense moral value, which was however understood by only a few people today. When the teacher mentioned this monument, he was not making reference to the monument per se but to its conceptual, cognitive, and emotional content. He always used to stress that every time the passed by the monument, they should read Dionysios Solomos’ verse from his poem ‘Ode to Fre
