The winter is the best time of the year for curious travelers, because it is then that one learns all of the news! Such as, for example, the fact that there is a new impressive oenological arrival to the island. Our glasses clink and the conversation flows freely. In the atmospheric dug-out wine bar of the hotel, a cornucopia of Santorinian wines await us, together with friends close to our heart. Fortune smiles on us, as it is open all year round, and it hosts us impeccably. Walking along the brow of the cliff, we pass through Fira, stopping to pay homage at the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, and continue onwards to Imerovigli, to the hotel Iliotopos. A glass of Assyrtiko here gazing at the breathtaking view is enough to turn anyone into a poet. The tasting hall is open and warm and welcoming. On the saddleback between Pyrgos and the road to Athinios one finds the facilities of Santo Wines.
The pruned vines, woven into basket-like coils, were spread out on the ground – artworks of daily life waiting patiently for the spring to bring forth the first shoots and, gradually, the next harvest.
And so later I walk and admire the vines, which at this time of year show their other side. In Pyrgos everything was shut, but I had come for a friendly visit to the winery of Haridimos Hatzidakis, which I had not yet managed to see with him since it was completed and became fully operational.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.The sea glistened in a waveless caldera, and the villages glowed in the sunshine – freshly washed by the recent rains and dried by the northerly breeze. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus. Papadopoulou, Ioanna, and Leonard Muellner, eds. The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?Īvailable for purchase in print via Harvard University Press. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely.
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