1973, Greece, Rare Book, Spyros Milas, Irodias ke Prodromos, Drama, Vaso Katraki, Concentration Camps Leros-Partheni

Drama in 4 Acts

Signed and dedicated by the author

Cover by Vaso Katraki

First Edition

Original Paper Binding

Pages 54

8vo

Vaso Katraki (1914 – 1988) was a Greek painter and engraver. She was known for her passionate depictions of the sufferings of the Greek people during and after World War II. In 1967 she was exiled to a barren island by the military junta on the day it took power. She started with wood engraving, then developed an original and very unusual technique of sandstone engraving.

At the end of the book it is stated that the Drama was written in the concentration camps of Partheni on Leros, a Greek island in the Dodecanese. During the Junta of the Colonels (1967-1974), the island was used as a place of domestic exile for political prisoners, using the old Italian military depots in the “Partheni” area as concentration camps. The author, imprisoned in Leros, portraits John the Baptist as a rebel and prophet of a new world order who enrages the Roman wife of Herodes, Herodias, the representative of the Roman empire.