"Mercury. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Captain Corelli's Mandolin, released simultaneously in the United States as Corelli's Mandolin, is a 1994 novel by the British writer Louis de Bernières, set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Italian and German occupation of the Second World War. The main characters are Antonio Corelli, an Italian army captain, and Pelagia, the daughter of the local physician, Dr Iannis. An important event in the novel is the massacre of Italian troops by the Germans in September 1943—the Italian Acqui Division had refused to surrender and had fought the Germans for nine days before running"
"1942 the division headquarters were briefly relocated to Lefkada before settling on Cephalonia in May, 1943. Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, thousands of soldiers from the division were executed on the islands during Operation Achse, in what became known as the ""Cephallonia massacre"". One of the largest prisoner of war massacres of the war, and one of the largest-scale German atrocities to be committed by Wehrmacht troops, this event provided the historical background to the novel ""Captain Corelli’s Mandolin"", which later became a Hollywood film. The events in Cefalonia were repeated, to a lesser extent, elsewhere. In Corfu,"
"the nine thousand surviving Italian soldiers were executed in reprisal by the German forces. The book ""Corelli's Mandolin"", by Louis de Bernieres (which was later made into the film 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'), is based on this story. While the war ended in central Europe in 1945, Cephalonia remained in a state of conflict due to the Greek Civil War. Peace returned to Greece and the island in 1949. Cephalonia lies just to the east of a major tectonic fault, where the European plate meets the Aegean plate at a slip boundary. This is similar to the more famous San Andreas"
"suffering some 1,300 casualties. The next day, the Germans began executing their prisoners and did not stop until more than 4,500 Italians had been shot. The 4,000 or so survivors were put aboard ships for the mainland, but some of them sank after hitting mines in the Ionian Sea, where another 3,000 were lost. The Cephallonia massacre serves as the background for the novel ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"". The Italians occupied the bulk of the Greek mainland and most of the islands. Although several proposals for territorial annexation had been put forward in Rome, none were actually carried out during the"
"drowned when the German ships taking them to concentration camps were sunk by the Allies, and 5,155 were executed by 26 September. It was one of the largest prisoner of war massacres of the war, along with the Katyn massacre, and it was one of many atrocities committed by the 1st Mountain Division (). The massacre provided the historical background to the novel ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"", which became a Hollywood film. Since the fall of Greece in April–May 1941, the country had been divided in occupation zones, with the Italians getting the bulk of the mainland and most islands. The"
"famous book is his fourth, ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"", in which the eponymous hero is an Italian soldier who is part of the occupying force on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War. In the US it was originally published as ""Corelli's Mandolin"". In 2001, the book was turned into a film. De Bernières strongly disapproved of the film version, commenting, ""It would be impossible for a parent to be happy about its baby's ears being put on backwards."" He does however state that it has redeeming qualities, and particularly likes the soundtrack. Since the release of the"
"as ""the new ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"""", was a number one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the ""Richard & Judy Book Club"" for their 2006 Summer Reads. ""To Nisi"" (The Island) was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA. In 2009, she donated the short story ""Aflame in Athens"" to Oxfam's ""Ox-Tales"" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the ""Fire"" collection. Hislop has a particular affection for Greece, visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has"
"natural attractions, including Melissani underground lake, Drogarati cave and Myrtos beach, have helped popularize Cephalonia. The film, ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"" (2001), shot on the island itself, made Cephalonia more widely known. Across the broader island, two large monasteries are to be found: the first is that of Haghia Panagia in Markopoulo to the southeast, and the other lies on the road between Argostoli and Michata, on a small plain surrounded by mountains. This second has an avenue of about 200 trees aligned from NW to SE, with a circle in the middle, and is the monastery of Saint Gerasimus of"
"in December 1437, when his ship sought shelter from a storm on the island during his journey to the Council of Ferrara. On 12 February 1944, SS ""Oria"" sank in a storm on the south east rocks of Patroklos island with 4,074 killed, most Italian military internees. It was also the island at the heart of the Israeli political scandal known as the ""Greek island affair"". Patroklos (Attica) Patroklos () or Gaidouronisi (Γαϊδουρονήσι, ""donkey island"") is a small, private island located in the Saronic Gulf, Greece. It is situated about 65 km from Athens and 3 km from Sounion and"
"Patroklos (Attica) Patroklos () or Gaidouronisi (Γαϊδουρονήσι, ""donkey island"") is a small, private island located in the Saronic Gulf, Greece. It is situated about 65 km from Athens and 3 km from Sounion and is part of the Attica region. In ancient times, the island was known as ""Patroklou Charax"" (""Camp of Patroclus"") or ""Patroklou Nesos"" (""Island of Patroclus""), after the Ptolemaic admiral Patroclus, who established a fortified base there during the Chremonidean War. In the late Middle Ages, the island was notorious as a haven for pirates. The Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos was nearly captured by Catalan pirates"
"So he changed some ants (, Myrmigia) into warriors who had six hands and wore black armour. Later, the Myrmidons, commanded by Achilles, were known as the most fearsome fighting unit in Greece. Aegina Aegina (; , ""Aígina"" , ) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and became its king. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era. The municipality of Aegina consists of the island"
"Strauss visited Lixouri some times where he had an affair with the pianist Dora Wihan (born Weiss). The novelists Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975) and the Swiss (1917–2010) spent parts of their life on the island. Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and wrote about the society in the town of Lixouri. Lord Byron wrote parts of ""Prelude"" and ""Don Juan"" in Livatho. Perhaps the best known appearance of Cephalonia in popular culture is in the novel ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"", by the English author Louis de Bernières. The book is believed to have been inspired by the village of Farsa, just outside"
"Papadoplaka Papadoplaka () is a natural reef islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between cape Lithino and cape Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the ancient capital of Crete. The name can be loosely translated as the ""priest's rock"". It is administered within Heraklion regional unit. There are a group of four islets in the bay including Papadoplaka (to the west), Megalonisi (with the lighthouse), Mikronisi (also known as Agios Pavlos), and Trafos. Papadoplaka was more substantial in Minoan times, due to"
"of ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"" was released in 2001, with Nicolas Cage as the Italian Captain Corelli, John Hurt as Dr Iannis, and Penélope Cruz as his daughter, Pelagia. The film, directed by John Madden, also starred Christian Bale, Irene Papas and Joanna Daria Adraktas. In 2011, the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, England, and the Kote Marjanishvili Theatre of Tbilisi, Georgia, produced an adaptation of the novel written by Mike Maran and directed by Levan Tsuladze. This production combined live actors and puppetry. It had its premiere in Georgia at the Tbilisi International Festival in October 2011, before transferring to the"
"is convinced she sees his ghost. The baby girl, whom Pelagia has named Antonia, grows up and marries. Many years later, an old man visits Pelagia, who is revealed to be Antonio Corelli, now a famous mandolin player. He explains that he did not visit before because, having seen her with baby Antonia on her doorstep and believing her to be married, he was bitter. The novel ends on a happy note. ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"" explores many varieties of love. We see the initial lust-based love between Pelagia and Mandras, which burns out as a result of the war, and"
"on a fictional Greek island named Mavrodaphne, after the black grapes and wine of Patras. On the island, a group of expatriates from primarily Britain and Russia are enjoying the titular spring, and each chapter is written from a different character's perspective, giving his or her history leading up to their arrival on the island. Other chapters, ""The Music"" in particular, are set in the present on the island. The narrative style and allusive references are unique to each chapter, giving each its own stylistic independence and demonstrating Durrell's exploration of a variety of modernist modes. The chapter ""Walsh"" continues"
"in<br> the bright young men on the war field<br> the crown of her hair wound<br> from the last few grasses left<br> on the desolate earth. Psara Psara (, ""Psará"", ; formerly known as Ψύρα, Psyra, or Ψυρίη, Psyriī) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Together with the small island of Antipsara (Pop 4) it forms the municipality of Psara. It is part of the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The only town of the island and seat of the municipality is also called Psara. Psara had 448 inhabitants according to the 2011"
"Kastellorizo Kastellorizo or Castellorizo ( ""Kastellorizo""; officially Μεγίστη ""Megisti"" or ""Meyisti"") is a Greek island and municipality located in the southeastern Mediterranean. It lies roughly off the south coast of Turkey, about southeast of Athens and east of Rhodes, almost halfway between Rhodes and Antalya, and northwest of Cyprus. Kastellorizo is part of the Rhodes regional unit. The island has become more popular in recent years among tourists looking for an isolated place in the Dodecanese, thanks also to the 1991 Oscar-winning movie ""Mediterraneo"", by Gabriele Salvatores, which is set on the island during the Second World War. The island's"
"Santorini Santorini (, ), classically Thera (English pronunciation ), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km (28 sq mi) and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of"
"the protection of Mount Olympus. According to myth, the large rocks all over the island are said to be the petrified testicles (or, in bowdlerized versions, the entire corpses) of the giants. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. It is situated east of Athens in the Aegean Sea. The island features no rivers, but numerous seasonal streams two of which have been converted into reservoirs. The island is composed mostly of granite and the terrain is very rocky with many areas eroded by the strong winds. High quality clay and"
"it does touch on some mature issues in a few places). However readers have enjoyed its imaginative feel-good plot, and well-drawn characters and location. It is influenced by Durrell's own childhood on Corfu. The Donkey Rustlers The Donkey Rustlers is a 1968 novel for older children by Gerald Durrell, the well-known British writer and naturalist. It is set on a Greek island. The plot involves two British children, Amanda and David, who regularly vacation on the island, and who are friends with two Greek children, Yani and another who has a speech impediment. Yani has financial difficulties which mean that"
"Panic Spring Panic Spring is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1937 by Faber and Faber in Britain and Covici-Friede in the United States under the pseudonym Charles Norden. It is set on a fictional Greek Island, Mavrodaphne, in the Ionian Sea somewhere between Patras, Kephalonia, and Ithaca. The island, however, resembles Corfu strongly, and in at least one inscribed copy of the novel, Durrell includes a map of Corfu identified as Mavrodaphne. The novel progresses through multiple perspectives in the successive chapters, each focusing on a different character. As a whole, the novel shows Durrell's myriad influences of"
"are being written, Greece will endure"". The Australian novelist and short story writer Beverley Farmer described the English translation of ""Vasilis Arvanitis"" as “a jewel of a book”. The classical composer Yiannis Papaioannou (Greek: Ιωάννης Παπαιωάννου) wrote a musical work with the title ""Vasilis Arvanitis"" (1945). Translations Criticism Vasilis Arvanitis Vasilis Arvanitis () is a novella by the Greek writer Stratis Myrivilis set on the island of Lesbos (Mytilene) in the 1910s. The novella is set in Myrivilis' home village of Sykamnia on the island of Lesbos in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the island"
"Vasilis Arvanitis Vasilis Arvanitis () is a novella by the Greek writer Stratis Myrivilis set on the island of Lesbos (Mytilene) in the 1910s. The novella is set in Myrivilis' home village of Sykamnia on the island of Lesbos in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the island had a mixed population of Greeks and Turks who, although they lived in the same villages, nevertheless conducted their affairs separately. The Greeks, who were in the majority, resented not being their own masters and dreamed of the day when they would break free from Turkish rule and"
"ballad, published in his novel ""Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter"" (1801). Siren (mythology) In Greek mythology, the Sirens (Greek singular: ""Seirēn""; Greek plural: ""Seirēnes"") were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, rationalized traditions, the literal geography of the ""flowery"" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. All such locations"
"Othonoi Othonoi (, also rendered as Othoni) is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest of the Diapontia Islands. It is a former community of the Ionian Islands. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 10.078 km and population of 392 (2011). In the 19th century the island was the capital of the Diapontia Islands municipality, which also included nearby islands of Ereikoussa,"
"said to be at Monastery of Saint John the Theologian on the Greek island of Patmos. Ortona's three galleys reached the island of Chios in 1258, led by General Leone Acciaiuoli. Chios was considered the island where Saint Thomas, after the martyrdom in India, had been buried. A portion fought around the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands, the other in the sea lapping at the then Syrian coast. The three galleys of Ortona moved on the second front of the war and reached the island of Chios. The tale is provided by Giambattista De Lectis, physician and writer of the"
"Makronisos Makronisos (, lit. ""Long Island""), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is located close to the coast of Attica, facing the port of Lavrio. The island has an elongated shape, north to south, around east to west, and its terrain is arid and rocky. It is the largest uninhabited Greek island. It is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit and in the municipality of Kea. In ancient times the island was called Helena (), and was situated so as"
"Lazaretto Island Lazaretto Island, (Greek: Λαζαρέτο, also Lazareto, formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios) is located two nautical miles northeast of Corfu. The island has an area of and is administered by the Greek National Tourist Organization. It gets its name from the lazaretto located there. During Venetian rule in the early 16th century a monastery was built on the islet and a leprosarium was established there later that century, after which the island was named. In 1798, during the French occupation, it was occupied by the Russo-Turkish fleet which ran it as a military hospital. During the British occupation, in"
"Missolonghi Messolonghi (, ) is a municipality of 34,416 people (according to the 2011 census) in western Greece. The town is the capital of Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, and the seat of the municipality of Iera Polis Messolongiou (Sacred City of Messolonghi). Messolonghi is known as the site of a dramatic siege during the Greek War of Independence, and of the death of poet Lord Byron. The town is located between the Acheloos and the Evinos rivers and has a port on the Gulf of Patras. It trades in fish, wine, and tobacco. The Arakynthos mountains lie to the northeast. The"
"Parelioi Parelioi () is a former municipality on the island of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on the central west coast of the island of Corfu. It has a land area of and a population of 6,403 (2011 census). The seat of the municipality was the town of Kokkini (pop. 580). Its largest towns are Sinarádes (pop. 854), Áfra (839), Giannádes (565), Kokkíni, Kompítsi (733), and Pélekas (405). The municipal unit Parelioi is subdivided into the following communities"
"Aegina Aegina (; , ""Aígina"" , ) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and became its king. During ancient times Aegina was a rival of Athens, the great sea power of the era. The municipality of Aegina consists of the island of Aegina and a few offshore islets. It is part of the Islands regional unit, Attica region. The municipality is subdivided into the following five communities (population in 2011 in parentheses ): The"
"is set against remembrances of the city, London, financial dependency and despair, and political unrest. Panic Spring Panic Spring is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1937 by Faber and Faber in Britain and Covici-Friede in the United States under the pseudonym Charles Norden. It is set on a fictional Greek Island, Mavrodaphne, in the Ionian Sea somewhere between Patras, Kephalonia, and Ithaca. The island, however, resembles Corfu strongly, and in at least one inscribed copy of the novel, Durrell includes a map of Corfu identified as Mavrodaphne. The novel progresses through multiple perspectives in the successive chapters, each"