Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes
Page 23
of Egon Huber 45, 62, 267
Turkish influence 205
poverty 101–102
printing
and censorship 216
equipment 23 26, 41
workers 68–70, 140
Profeta 157, 208, 227
Protogenes, painting of Ialysos 115
Ptolemy 106, 112, 124
Pythagoras 187
R
rainbows, peasant lore 44
relics, preserved at Rhodes 158, 225–226
rhetoric 132–133
Rhodes 2, 16–17, 25, 71, 85, 98, 143–144, 273
ancient beliefs and superstitions 45, 138, 157, 178, 205, 209, 279, 282, 286, 288
ancient customs and traditions 142, 211, 279, 280–281, 282
arrival in 15
calendar of flowers and saints 277–289
destruction of by earthquake 124, 134
exploration of lost cities 149–189
geology 53, 183
history 49–51, 105–106, 133, 143–144, 149, 192–204
and the Marine Venus 3, 35–37, 264–265, 274
medieval town 19, 21, 24, 39, 98, 222
new town 18–21, 26
period of starvation in 164
post-war reconstruction 20, 99
pre-war 100–101
remains of ancient city 144
Rhodians 50, 51, 154
history 107–125, 134–135, 191–192, 198
Rhodos (Spain) 134
Rhone, river, legend of name 134
Rodini 131, 144, 180
Rome
alliance with Rhodes 133
catacombs 49
Rose, of Rhodes 52
S
Saints 211, 223–224, 228, 288.
calendar of 277–289
See also under names of Saints
Samos 53, 90
San Benedetto 231, 286
Sand 3, 45–46, 124, 131, 144, 158, 162, 256
Sextus Empiricus 122
Siana 68, 212, 286
Simbulli 144
Smith, Sir Sidney 99
Smyrna 44
Soroni
dancers 215, 245–246, 249–253, 253, 272
expedition to 230–257
legend of patron saint 228–230, 284
Soulas, St. (Saul) 228, 285
festival at Soroni 236–257, 284
Sparta 174
Sporades 51, 273
St. Pantaleimon (village) 208–209
Stanhope, Lady Hester 154, 182
Stephanides, Dr. Thodore 277
Street of the Knights 18, 21, 24
Sun God 121. See also Colossus
Symi 19, 72–73, 135, 198, 286
T
Tacitus 132
Telos 198
Tenos 165
Tetrapolis 187
Thalassocratia 134, 185
Theocritus 67
Theodorus of Gadara 133
Tiberius Gracchus 133
Tilos 155, 249
Timachidas of Rhodes 218
Tinos 224
Tlepolemos 45
Torr 49, 109, 124, 125, 132, 134–135, 137–138, 158, 203, 218, 297
Tozer, Rev. Fanshawe 10, 52–297
trees.
legends 67. See also Hippocrates, tree of
Trianda 48, 143, 146, 153, 155, 231, 242, 263, 272, 286
Tropian Cape 50
Troy, and Trojan War 45
Turkish churchyard 58, 59–60, 64, 137, 205
Turkish language 30
Turkish quarter 62, 145
Turks 47, 48, 59, 136
children 61
and the history of Greek islands 193, 198, 203–204
printers 42
V
Venetians 193, 198, 226
Venus. See Marine Venus
Vignoli, Vignolo de’, conquest of Rhodes 193, 194–198, 199
Villa Cleobolus 2, 26, 34, 61, 62–64, 265, 266
garden of 127, 135–137, 205
Villa Mondolfo 146–147
Villa Neuova 166
Villaret, Fulk de 193, 195–197, 198
Virgin Mary
feasts and festivals 278, 285–287
ikons and images of 39, 156, 280
legend of the oleander 128
Vitruvius 113
Vronty 51
W
war
debris 75, 157, 181, 226
effects on Philerermo 54, 156–157
effects on Rhodes 20
soldiers in Patmos 92–93
and starvation 165, 208
See also minefields
windmills 168–169
winds, different 52
wine 147, 167, 173, 178
Z
Zeus 178, 185, 228
A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was a novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet, his acclaimed series of four novels set before and during World War II in Alexandria, Egypt. Durrell’s work was widely praised, with his Quartet winning the greatest accolades for its rich style and bold use of multiple perspectives. Upon the Quartet’s completion, Life called it “the most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time.”
Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Durrell was an avid and dedicated writer from an early age. He studied in Darjeeling before his parents sent him to England at the age of eleven for his formal education. When he failed to pass his entrance examinations at Cambridge University, Durrell committed himself to becoming an established writer. He published his first book of poetry in 1931 when he was just nineteen years old, and later worked as a jazz pianist to help fund his passion for writing.
Determined to escape England, which he found dreary, Durrell convinced his widowed mother, siblings, and first wife, Nancy Isobel Myers, to move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. The island lifestyle reminded him of the India of his childhood. That same year, Durrell published his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers. He also read Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and, impressed by the notorious novel, he wrote an admiring letter to Miller. Miller responded in kind, and their correspondence and friendship would continue for forty-five years. Miller’s advice and work heavily influenced Durrell’s provocative third novel, The Black Book (1938), which was published in Paris. Though it was Durrell’s first book of note, The Black Book was considered mildly pornographic and thus didn’t appear in print in Britain until 1973.
In 1940, Durrell and his wife had a daughter, Penelope Berengaria. The following year, as World War II escalated and Greece fell to the Nazis, Durrell and his family left Corfu for work in Athens, Kalamata (also in Greece), then Alexandria, Egypt. His relationship with Nancy was strained by the time they reached Egypt, and they separated in 1942. During the war, Durrell served as a press attaché to the British Embassy. He also wrote Prospero’s Cell, a guide to Corfu, while living in Egypt in 1945.
Durrell met Yvette Cohen in Alexandria, and the couple married in 1947. They had a daughter, Sappho Jane, in 1951, and separated in 1955. Durrell published White Eagles Over Serbia in 1957, alongside the celebrated memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and Justine (1957), the first novel of the Alexandria Quartet Capitalizing on the overwhelming success of Justine, Durrell went on to publish the next three novels in the series—Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960)—in quick succession. Upon the series’ completion, poet Kenneth Rexroth hailed it as “a tour de force of multiple-aspect narrative.”
Durrell married again in 1961 to Claude-Marie Vincendon, who died of cancer in 1967. His fourth and final marriage was in 1973 to Ghislaine de Boysson, which ended in divorce in 1979.
After a life spent in varied locales, Durrell settled in Sommières, France, where he wrote the Revolt of Aphrodite series as well as the Avignon Quintet. The first book in the Quintet, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize while Constance (1982), the third nove
l, was nominated for the Booker Prize.
Durrell died in 1990 at his home in Sommières.
This photograph of Lawrence Durrell aboard his boat, the Van Norden, is taken from a negative discovered among his papers. The vessel is named after a character in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. (Photograph held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)
One of Nancy Durrell’s photographs from the 1930s. Pictured here is the Caique, which they used to travel around the waters of Corfu. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin, property of the Gerald Durrell Estate.)
This photograph of Nancy and Lawrence Durrell was likely taken in Delphi, Greece, in late 1939. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin and the Gerald Durrell Estate.)
A 1942 photograph of Lawrence Durrell with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter, Penelope, taken in Cairo. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)
This manuscript notebook contains one of two drafts of Justine acquired by the British Library as part of Lawrence Durrell’s large archive in 1995. (Notebook held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)
A page from Durrell’s notebooks, or, as he called them, the “quarry.” This page introduced his notes on the “colour and narrative” of scenes in Justine. (Photo courtesy of the Lawrence Durrell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.)
“As well as serving delicious food in an idyllic setting, the Taverna Nikolas at Agni has strong links with the Durrell story in Corfu,” says Joanna Hodgkin of this 2012 photo. Durrell lived in the neighboring town of Kalami, where his famous White House sits right above the shoreline. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)
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