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by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Canea, 14, 60, 142

  Canopus, Nathaniel, 178

  Cantacuzene family, 45, 88, 182, 261, 340; John VI, 88

  Capodistria family, 64, 112–13, 136, 266–7

  Cappadocia, 12, 45, 259, 263, 269

  Carnarvon, Lord, 291

  Cargese, 124–6, 128, 130, 210, 267

  Cassos Straits, 144

  Cavafy (poet), 274

  Cephalonia, 13, 135, 176–7, 211, 216, 269

  Charouda, 87, 89

  Chelmos, Mt., 153

  Chimarriots, 13, 175

  Chios, 119, 126, 182, 200, 268, 299

  Chora, 255–6, 258, 268

  Chosroes, 184, 269

  Christianity and Christians, x, 10, 12, 18–19, 35, 58–9, 67, 72, 88, 103, 118, 135, 153, 181, 198, 200, 202–6, 208, 210, 218–20, 225, 243–4, 246–7, 249–52, 258–9, 270, 272, 275, 289

  Chryssikakis, George, 74

  Churchill, Sir Winston, 237–8, 240–1

  Cilicia, 138, 157, 176

  Cloud of Unknowing, 164

  Cocytus, river, 153

  Colchis, 13

  Columella, 278

  Communities, 12

  Comnène family, 44–5, 120, 128, 257, 328; Emperor Alexis, 44, 328

  Constantinople, viii, 5, 10, 14, 44–6, 49, 58–9, 62, 96, 103, 108, 116, 118, 130, 176, 181–2, 184, 200, 240, 248, 254–5, 259, 265, 288, 300, 333, 337, 341

  Corfu, vii, 129, 236, 266, 276, 305, 332

  Corinth, 5, 32, 48, 203, 282, 307, 345

  Cornaros, Vincentios (poet), 233; Erotocritos, 233

  Coroni, 30, 34–5, 135, 332

  Corsica and Corsicans, 13, 45, 106, 121–30, 214, 341

  Crete and Cretans, vii, x–xi, 5, 11, 13–14, 22, 24–5, 39, 46, 54, 57, 60, 66–8, 72, 106–7, 117, 122, 130, 133, 135, 139, 144, 152, 158, 171, 174–8, 188, 203–4, 206, 214, 232, 236, 238, 262–5, 267, 280–2, 284, 288, 295, 301–2, 304, 308, 312–13, 319–20, 329, 344; Sphakia and Sphakian Mountains, 57, 319–20; White Mountains, vii, 39, 176, 188, 232, 304

  Crusades, x, 249, 255–6, 258, 264, 266, 273, 331, 334

  Ctesiphon, 47, 269

  Cyclades, xii, 12, 39, 135, 158, 204, 217, 306, 344

  Cyprus and Cypriots, 5, 12, 13, 27, 54, 221, 223, 232, 239–41, 256, 265, 270, 276, 331

  Cyrenaica, 320

  Cythera (Cerigo), 142–4, 155–6, 232, 303, 316, 338, 344

  Dacia, 214, 219

  Damietta, 135

  Daphni, 254, 256, 268, 318

  Dardanelles, 301

  Dawkins, Prof. R.M., 126–7, 127, 200, 270

  Democritus, 278

  Derna, 137

  Diakos, Athanasios, 286

  Didymotikon, 273

  Digenis Arkitas, Epic of, 256, 288

  Dimitrakos–Messisklis, Dimitri, 37–8, 103, 133, 162, 175, 177–8, 290; Oi Nyklianoi, 38, 103, 162

  Diocletian, 44, 58, 207, 339

  Dionysios of Phourna, 242, 264

  Dodecanese, 144, 158

  Dolphins, vii, 217, 304–9

  Domoko, 14

  Dostoievsky, 248

  Douglas, Norman (author of Siren Lands), 307, 331

  Doxaras (Zantiot painter), 268

  Durrell, Lawrence, 143

  Eastern Orthodox Church, 55, 58, 88, 103, 119, 126, 181, 243, 245, 248–9, 252–4, 257, 266–7, 270

  Egg Island, 142, 303

  Egypt and Egyptians, 19, 47, 52, 134–5, 144, 178, 190, 243, 311, 325; Nile, 144, 175

  Elaphonisi (Stag-Island), 49, 155, 231

  Eleusis, 207

  Eliot, Sir Gilbert, 126

  Embirikos, Dr. Andrea, 307

  England and English, 13, 27, 54, 75–7, 80, 112, 127, 132, 137, 141, 167, 178–9, 190, 198–200, 207, 214, 234, 238–241, 259, 272, 276–7, 281, 296, 309, 318, 325, 330

  Epaminondas, 338

  Ephesus and Ephesians, 202, 219

  Epirus and Epirotes, 5, 57, 59, 106, 153, 167, 173, 175, 208, 223, 257, 266, 269, 277, 280, 284, 301, 312, 325, 344

  Erotokritos (poem), 265, 288

  Etruscans, 209

  Euphrates, 175–6

  Eurotas, river, 14, 62, 262, 338–9, 344

  Eurytania, 12

  Eustratius, Emperor, 45, 49

  Eyres Monsell, Joan, 24, 42, 79–80, 154–5, 226, 232, 319, 342

  Fallmerayer, Prof., 191, 199

  Famagusta, 218, 332

  Fars (Persian province), 192

  Fayoum, 276, 318

  Feasts and Feasting (Pagan and Christian), 42, 66, 124, 164, 204, 216, 219–20, 242–3, 250–1, 269, 313, 343

  Fielding, Xan, 42, 312; The Stronghold, 312

  Flecker (poet), 215

  Foscolo, Ugo (Zantiot poet), 266

  France and French, 62, 94, 103, 121, 125, 127–30, 142, 167, 185, 257, 266, 296, 341

  Franks, 13, 39, 45, 52, 59, 63, 88, 94–7, 103–5, 118, 158, 177, 256–8, 261, 325, 330, 332–3, 339

  Francesca, Piero della, 184, 246

  Funeral rites and customs, 67–72, 75, 89; dirges, 67, 71–2, 101, 109, 138, 288, 290, 294

  Gallipoli, 135, 301

  Galtes, 30

  Gavdopoula, 319

  Gavdos, 144, 312, 319

  Genoa and Genoese, 13, 121–2, 124–5, 134–5

  Genseric, King of the Vandals, 139–40

  George of Nicodemia, 259

  Germany and Germans, x, 10, 22, 76–7, 111, 125, 137, 139, 158, 238, 324–5; Feder, Max, 114

  Gerontiki, 111–12

  Gladstone, Mr. and Mrs., 236–7, 241

  Gorgons and Centaurs, 84, 214–29, 279

  Graves, Robert (translation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius), 152

  Greece and Greeks, vii, ix–xii, 5–8, 10, 12–29, 31, 33–6, 43–4, 47–9, 52, 54–5, 57–9, 61–4, 66–8, 70–2, 76, 79–81, 84–8, 92, 99–100, 103, 112–19, 121–30, 133–43, 148, 150, 152, 155, 157–60, 163, 167, 169–73, 175–9, 181–2, 185–6, 190–2, 194–5, 197–203, 205, 207–11, 213–15, 219–20, 224–5, 227–9, 231, 233–44, 247–62, 264–8, 270–8, 281–3, 286, 288–9, 291, 293, 295, 298, 300–1, 303–4, 309–13, 316–19, 321, 323–6, 330–6, 339–44; ancient Greek music, 252; popular poetry, 66, 71, 267, 95–6

  Grevena, 303

  Grigorakis family (see also Zanetbey), 62, 64, 106, 114, 289, 340

  Grigoriani family, 116

  Grosseto, 10, 128

  Grosso, Cape, 160

  Gytheion, 46, 63, 93, 114, 326–7, 330, 334, 337–42, 347

  Hadjikyriakou-Ghika, Niko and Tiggie, 8, 302

  Hadrian, 201

  Halicarnassus, 44, 144

  Hassan Pasha, 340

  Haygarth (poet), 170

  Hearn, Lafcadio, 155

  Heliogabalus, 44, 339

  Hellespont, the, 46, 63

  Heraclius, Emperor, 269

  Herakleion (Candia), 13, 60, 117, 174, 267, 332

  Hesiod, 217, 226

  Hippola, 133

  Homer and Homeric, 23, 35, 40, 101, 164, 179, 201, 206, 288, 311, 338, 346

  Hydra, 5, 8, 13, 283, 302

  Iatriani family, 117–18, 120

  Iconium, 44

  Ida, Mt., 39, 158, 176, 203, 232, 312

  Ikons, vii, 49, 68, 121, 127, 130, 136, 204, 246, 248, 250, 253–8, 264–70, 272, 278, 286–7, 318, 321, 343

  Illyria and Illyrians, 19, 173, 312

  Ionia and Ionian Sea, 12, 21, 23, 39, 66, 236–7, 240, 266–8, 304, 331, 344

  Islam, 215, 249, 257

  Italy and Italians, 19, 37, 61, 80, 107, 118–21, 128–9, 135, 137, 172, 176, 182, 198, 203, 214, 246, 254, 256, 260–1, 265–7, 269, 273, 275, 284, 309, 312, 320–1

  Jews, xii, 9–12, 14, 17–20, 225, 268; Sephardim, 10, 13

  Josephus, Flavius, 19

  Julian the Apostate, 202, 205

  Justinian, Emperor, 248, 258

  Kainepolis, 139

  Kakovounia (the Bad Mountains), 132, 149, 159, 162, 177

  Kalamata (ancient Pharia), xii, 15–16, 30, 32, 36, 41, 46, 64, 85, 93, 112, 114, 137, 157, 329
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br />   Kalavryta, monastery of, 36

  Kalyvia, 334

  Kambouroglou, 200

  Kampos, 16, 31–3

  Kandamyli, 116

  Kaouriani family, 115–16

  Karaghiozi shadow-play, 10, 215, 284

  Karakovouni, 18

  Karamania, 12, 45

  Kardamyli, 34, 38, 40, 45

  Karystos, 282

  Karytaena castle, 331

  Kasimantis, Michali, 133–4

  Kastanitza, 291

  Kastoria, 268, 278

  Katopangi, 116

  Katouni (Zantiot painter), 268

  Katsimbalis, 91–2, 146, 174, 303

  Katsiriani family, 116

  Katsonis, Lambros, 158, 341

  Kavalla, 273

  Kechro, 12

  Kedros, Mt., 236, 281

  Kelepha (fortress), 53, 117, 120, 158, 291

  Keratea, 12

  Kharaka, 116

  Khotasia, 51

  Kinross, Lord (author of Europa Minor), 307

  Kitta (village), 99–102, 104, 115–16, 131, 176–7, 293, 296

  Kladas, Korkodeilos, 59

  Klephts, 13, 36, 60, 62, 64, 66, 71, 102, 129–30, 179, 185, 199, 267, 269, 286, 288, 318, 323, 341; Androutzos, 341; Zacharia, 341

  Kollettis, 173

  Kolokotronis, 36, 64, 186, 286

  Kolokythia, gulf, 329

  Kolonaki, 14

  Koumoundouros, 56, 62, 115, 292, 341

  Korea, 291

  Koritza, 286

  Korogoyianika, 291

  Kosma, 118

  Kotronas, 315–6, 327–8

  Koumoundouros (Prime Minister), 56, 115, 292, 341

  Kourikiani family, 115–16

  Kouyeas, Prof., 162, 177–8, 289

  Kozani, 278

  Kranae (Marathonisi), 346

  Krystallis (poet), 173

  Küprulü, Achmet, 61

  Kykko monastery, 270

  Kyparissia, 65

  Kyparissos, 138, 140, 149, 158

  Kypriano, 284, 293

  Kyrenia, 13

  Kythnos, 204, 211, 216

  Lacedaemon and Lacedaemonians, 14, 19–20, 35, 66, 152–3, 178, 180, 262, 337–47

  Laconia and Laconians, vii, 10–11, 14, 16–19, 21, 49, 57–8, 63, 114, 138, 155–7, 169, 231, 290, 292, 326, 330, 338-9

  Ladon, river, 208

  Lakkoi, 39

  Lambros, Spiro, 119

  Lampridius, 201

  Larissa, 227, 273

  Lasvouri family, 120

  Lavrion (tin mines), 92, 116

  Lawson, John Cuthbert (Cambridge don), 200–1, 207–8, 211, 215, 221, 223–4, 227; Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion, 201

  Layia, 231, 236, 239, 276, 291

  Leake, Col. (traveller), 171–2, 174, 289, 341, 343

  Lear, Edward, 127

  Lebanon, 13, 176–7

  Leconte de Lisle, 169

  Leghorn, 10, 119, 125, 145

  Leigh Fermor, Patrick (other writings of), vii–xii, 36, 259, 265; A Time to Keep Silence, 259; Monasteries of the Air, 265; The Traveller’s Tree, ix, 36

  Lenormant, 207

  Leo the Isaurian, Emperor, 44, 257

  Leonidas, 198

  Lesbos, xii, 12, 213

  Leuktra, 289

  Levant, 13, 59, 134, 172, 247

  Levkas, 214, 332

  Libya, 24, 144, 212, 311, 320; Libyan Sea, 24, 144

  Liddell, Robert, 7; The Morea, 7

  Limeni, 53, 63, 75–6, 134

  Liotard, 183, 318

  Lloyd George (later Earl), 238

  Loxada, 13

  Maccabees, Bk. I, 19

  Macedonia, 5, 12, 209, 245, 258–60, 262–3, 265, 270, 276, 280, 284, 339, 344

  Magnesian plains, 226–8

  Malatesta, Sigismondo, 19, 262

  Malea, Cape, 49, 144, 156, 232, 315, 330

  MacMahon, Marshal, 128

  Malta, 121

  Mani and Maniots, vii–xiii, 5, 7, 12–13, 16, 19, 21–2, 27–8, 30, 32–3, 35–8, 51–4, 56–67, 71–2, 79–94, 97–8, 100–1, 103–8, 111–15, 117, 118–30, 132, 134–9, 144, 150, 157–9, 162, 165, 167–80, 186–7, 189–191, 193–4, 203, 209–10, 229–30, 238, 241, 260–1, 266–7, 276–8, 287–98, 307, 309, 319, 325–6, 329–30, 332–3, 335, 339–44 ; Deep Mani, 32–3, 37, 52–4, 63, 65, 75, 79, 86, 90, 100, 106–8, 113, 115, 134, 136, 162, 170–1, 177, 179, 289, 293, 296, 325, 330; Lower Mani, 289, 291, 329; Outer Mani, 32, 54, 106, 114, 171, 241, 291–2, 294

  Maras, 176–7

  Marathonisi, 341, 345–6

  Marcus Aurelius, 44

  Mardaites, 13, 176

  Maremma, 120, 128, 346

  Marioupol, 13

  Marmara, Sea of, 300

  Marmari, 150, 157, 159

  Matapan, Cape, 21, 132–5, 142–3, 149, 154–7, 165, 208, 232, 290, 315, 329; cocks of, 142–7

  Mavrocordato, Prince Alexander, 185

  Mavrolevki, 12

  Mavromichalis family, 36, 62–4, 81, 112, 114, 134, 138, 169, 172–3, 186–7, 148–9, 161, 196, 293, 340; Kyriakos, 187; Petrobey, xi, 57, 62, 64, 79, 106, 157, 286; Skyloyanni, 63

  Mavrovouni, 334

  Mazaris (author of Sojourn of Mazaris in Hades), 19

  Meander, river, 174

  Medici family, 10, 118–19, 121, 125

  Megalopolis, 13

  Megara, 74, 282

  Megaspelion monastery, 270

  Meligs (Bulgarian tribe), 18, 58, 89

  Mérimée, Prosper, 127

  Messenia, 13, 17, 21, 23, 30, 34, 41, 54, 75, 88, 91, 97, 121, 135, 214, 344

  Messina, 121

  Messiskli family, 116

  Metaxas (Greek statesman), 238

  Meteora monastery, 265, 268

  Methoni, 30, 135, 332

  Metochites, Theodore, 184, 255

  Metzovo, 12

  Mezapo, 93–4, 134

  Michalakiani family, 116

  Mília, 289

  Miller, Henry (author of The Colossus of Maroussi), 143

  Mina, 93, 304

  Mirivilís (author), 215

  Mistra, 12–13, 19–21, 46, 59, 257, 260–2, 265, 268, 273, 275, 289, 311, 340

  Mithridates, 138

  Mitylene, 215

  Mohammed II, 36, 300

  Monemvasia, 95, 261, 311

  Moorhead, Alan (author of Gallipoli), 301

  Morea, 7, 13, 19, 21–2, 52, 58–9, 62, 64, 66, 89, 94, 103, 114, 130, 169, 180, 185, 290, 339, 341; Frankish conquest of, 58–9

  Morrit, John (traveller), 170–1

  Mosaics, 11, 49, 184, 247, 253–4, 257–8, 276, 321

  Moslems, 12, 134, 249, 289, 300, 343

  Moudanistica, 149

  Mourtzinos family, 37–40, 43, 45, 48, 112, 116

  Moustaxidis (historian), 120

  Myers, Sir John (author of Who Were the Greeks?), 318

  Mykonos, 13

  Mysticism, Asiatic and Christian, 247–8, 262

  Nabis (Spartan), 57, 338

  Naoussa, 10

  Napoleon, 62, 64, 125, 128–30, 341

  Nauplia, 64, 114, 214, 273, 332–3

  Navarino, 79, 240, 333

  Nereids (legends of), 35, 41, 63, 84, 194–6, 211, 218, 222, 306

  Nerezi, 268

  Nerval, Gerard de (author of El Desdichado), 153

  Neuhoff, Baron von, 125

  Nevers, Duc de, 332

  Nicaea, 44, 251, 255

  Nicephorus Phocas, 39, 120, 139

  Nicosia, 13, 256, 332

  Niphakos, Nikitas (poet), 288–90, 296, 329, 341; History of the Whole Mani, 288

  Nomia (village), 99, 101–2, 114, 116, 131, 293

  Nykli and Nyklians, xi, 13, 81, 83, 86–7, 89, 91–3, 102–7, 109–16, 129, 140, 169, 180, 277

  Oenoe, 221

  Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 325

  Oitylos (see Vitylo)

  Omignia, 123, 125

  Ossa, Mt., 12

  Otranto, 13

  Otto, King, 65, 113,
115, 133, 173, 185

  Ottoman Empire, ix, 60, 127, 180–1, 192, 265, 275

  Ovid, 213, 311

  Palaeologi dynasty, 19, 36–40, 43, 45, 59, 88, 255, 261, 340; Andronicus II, 103, 115, 184, 255, 332; Constantine XI, 36, 43; John V, 88; John VIII, 184; Michael VIII, 43

  Palamas (poet), 274, 288; The King’s Flute, 288

  Pamphylia, 176

  Paneo, Cornelius de (traveller), 169

  Paoli, Pascal, 125

  Paomia, 122, 125

  Paphlagonia, 45

  Paramythia, 326

  Parnassus, 211

  Parnon, Mt., 14, 22

  Parthenios, Bishop of Maina, 121

  Passava fortress, 330, 334, 340

  Patras, 133, 273

  Pausanias, 11, 133, 139, 180, 207–8, 338

  Pausanias (soldier), 157

  Pelagonia, 59, 95, 339

  Pelion, Mt., 210, 222, 226–8

  Peloponnese, ix, xi, 5, 10, 15, 18–19, 21–3, 30, 32, 37, 45, 56, 58–61, 88, 95, 130–1, 139, 156, 166, 176, 261, 301, 329–31, 335, 339, 344; Jews in, 10, 18–19; mountains, 23

  Perista, 18

  Persia, 47, 120, 144, 177, 184, 191–3, 215, 258

  Perugia, 113

  Petrarch, 333

  Petrovouni, 114

  Phaliréas, Socrates, 40

  Phanar and Phanariots, 14, 40, 48, 181–2, 184, 186, 289, 318

  Phigaleia, 227

  Philip V (Macedonian), 338

  Philo (Neoplatonist), 243

  Phlomochori, 315

  Pholegandros, 197, 306

  Phonia, 208

  Pindar, 226

  Pindus mountains, 5, 86, 277, 303

  Piraeus, 12, 14, 132–4, 157, 315

  Pius II, 333

  Plaka, 91, 180, 301

  Plastiras, 286

  Plato, 202, 243

  Plethon, Gemistus (scholar), 19, 262

  Pliny, 278

  Plutarch, 243

  Polites, Prof. Alexander, 200, 214, 221, 224

  Pompey, 139

  Pontus, 45

  Poros, 282–3

  Porphyrogenetus, Constantine, 58

  Porto Cayo, 134, 157–8

  Pouqueville (traveller), 171

  Premeti, 286

  Preveza, 10, 173

  Proclus, 247

  Procopiou, Dr. Angelos, 256–7, 268

  Procopius, 139; Wars, 139

  Propontis, 46, 337

  Psellus, 200, 211, 213, 258

  Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, 247

  Pylos, 15, 41, 163

  Pyrgos, 79–80, 90, 94, 169, 277

  Pythagoras, 201

  Ravenna, 26, 47, 268

  Revinda, 122

  Rhodes, 205, 216

  Rhodope, 12, 176, 221

  Rhodosto, 44

  Rimini, 19, 113, 138, 262

 

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