A story of Morea
10,80€
French traveler Castellan in an epistle of 1820 writes down the charming story of Melica, which was told to the French travelers by a wandering Greek rhapsodist: piracy, love, war, envy, betrayal, triumph of true love, but also a realistic depiction of pre-revolutionary Greece.
The notes in the form of epistles from the French traveler Castellan, written in a brilliant style and with literary value, give the current reader a realistic version of the Greek area’s pre-revolutionary image of the regions he visited with other members of the French mission. This version is valuable for the historical study of the period before 1821. Nature and Greek culture fascinate him to the highest degree, and he captures in paintings what impresses him, thus enriching his chronicle pictorially.
In the ninth epistle of the first volume published in 1820, Castellan incorporates the charming story of Melika, which was told to the French travelers by a wandering Greek rhapsodist. Piracy, love, war, envy, betrayal, but in the end triumph of true love, are the motifs that compose this story that seems to today’s reader like a fairy tale, but that contains seeds from the true story of Monemvasia in which it takes place.
FOR THE TWENTY HUNDRED YEARS FROM
REVOLUTION OF 1821
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Antoine-Laurent Castellan
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