NIKOS KOLESIS
ATHENS
ALEXANDRIA
ROME
Eternal Cities
OPERA
DEATH
OF
SOCRATES
PHEMIUS
Long-suffering
Odysseus and tormented companions
with
driver divine Athena
following
the road of post-mortem,
they
went to the jail
where
they kept Socrates.
DANCE
Athenians
condemned the teacher to death
because
corrupted the young people,
morality
of city
and
did not respect the gods.
ALL
TOGETHER
They
found a expiatory victim
as
utmost solution.
PERIDIS
Athenian
hegemony sank
after
the Sicilian expedition
the
biggest mistake of Athenians.
CITIZEN
The
terms of winners is always ruthless,
Spartans
forced the Athenians
burn
the ships,
and
demolish the long walls.
PHAEDRUS
I
can not see you so Socrates
I do
not want to see me crying
I
can not stand so much pain.
ALL
TOGETHER
Only
Socrates is serene
and
unperturbed
as
if nothing happens.
SOCRATES
Nobody
knows
what
is better for Him that dies.
He
does not know that goes
while
those who will live
they
do not know what waits for them.
PHAEDRUS
What they are doing now
the
will remember in all the life.
SOCRATES
It's
time to bathe
I do
not want to burden women
with
an extra work.
PLATO
Socrates
drank the hemlock
as
if he drank a glass of sweet wine,
serene
and calm
he
followed the way of destiny.
PHAEDRUS
The
drug paralyzed nervous system
causing
terrible pain
and
contractions.
DANCE
Death
of Socrates
shook
his students.
ALL
TOGETHER
He
is a new hero
He
is a new hero.
ODYSSEUS
He
showed in the people
how
is that possible
to
transform the world
with
Logic and with Word.
PERIDIS
He
is the first man in history
who
died for his ideas,
the
first man who died
for
what he believed.
CITIZEN
Radically
disputed the power
and
did Criticism and Self-criticism,
he
spoke about the truth of world.
DANCE
Since
then Athenians
spreading
with their ships
the
Empire of spirit
and
not the policy.
ALL
TOGETHER
Man
must
free
to meditate
and
Free to live.
PHEMIUS
The
Greeks gathered around divine Odysseus
and
together they continued Planetary Nostos.
DANCE
The
souls were shocked
in
the thought of return
In
mythical Ithaca.
ALL
TOGETHER
They
want to break free
from
search and Nostos.
COMPANIONS
The
city smells flesh and blood
around
lurks death.
ODYSSEUS
We
are in the center of the world
the
center of empire.
COMPANIONS
We
feel already Romans
real
citizens of Rome.
ODYSSEUS
The
Flavian Amphitheatre
the
temple of altar
for
thousands of wild animals and humans.
THEOMORFOS
The
wind brings the smell of centuries
the
miracle of Rome.
PERIDIS
They
are masterfully made
with
great art and technique.
CITIZEN
Senators
Praetors,
the Judges
the
knights and pleb of Rome.
ALL
TOGETHER
Gladiators
exercise each other
they
warm up.
DANCE
Soon
they will be opponents to death
half
will be deads.
ODYSSEUS
Thousands
of Christians are found
In
the undergrounds of Amphitheatre
suffering
the tremendously.
DANCE
An
endless Lament
that
reaches till the heavens.
ALL
TOGETHER
Nero
attends
to
entertain the people of Rome.
CITIZEN
Come
the emperor and his escort
and
the Praetorians.
ALL
TOGETHER
The
Sun King
offers
<< breads and circuses >>
THEOMORFOS
What
do they want Praetorians
around
the Emperor?
Why the
crowd booing
so
much strongly the guards.
PHEMIUS
The
people of Rome wanted to see
hot
blood running in the arena
broken
heads and brains flown
In
arena.
PERIDIS
Devouring
each other
lions
with tiger
hyenas
with panthers.
DANCE
The
apotheosis of death
that
became spectacle,
now
they threw in the beasts
those
who are sentenced to death.
ALL
TOGETHER
<<
abbestiam damnati >>
convicted
to death
PERIDIS
The
crowd laughs triumphant
devouring
people
while
begging for help.
PHEMIUS
Handing
out free bread
In
Rome plebs.
Sounding
trumpets
and
the gladiators make around
with
extended the swords,
in
front of Emperor
They
shout
Ave
Caesar
Morituti
te saloutant
GLADIATORS
Ave
Caesar
Morituri
te salute
CITIZEN
They
stayed only two
the
best gladiators of empire.
A
ferocious from Parthia the Fearless,
and
a freedman Julius.
DANCE
The
crowd greeted Gladiators
while
was ecstatic from passion.
FEARLESS
Why
you escape from me Gaul?
I
want to catch
the
fish and not You.
JULIUS
But
first,
you
must catch Me.
FEARLESS
Now
that I knelt you
ready
for the final blow
