The Spirit of the Times: The Birth of Music from Greek Tragedy (1)
As an artist and fighter, actor and victim, he left his mark on Greek cultural and national self-awareness after the Balkan Wars, the Great War, the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor, the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, the Second World War (1941–44), the Civil War (1946– 1949) and the military regime of the 1970s. He was respected as an icon of the internationalist left-wing poetics of freedom and he admitted that the end of the utopia he fought for as a communist all his life had come to an end. As an artist, in a kind of Odyssey, he collected and united scattered elements of Hellenism from antiquity, through Byzantium to contemporary poets and the mainstay of folk art. More than 1000 works outlived him and his era - from the music of the spheres and the opera Antigone, through the Song of the Dead Brother to the Sirtaki of the Greek Zorba