about Imvros/Gökçeada


In the depths of the sea on the cliff
Between Tenedos and craggy Imbros
There is a cave, wide gaping
Poseidon who made the earth tremble,
stopped the horses there.

Homer, Iliad, 8th Century BC









Now, however, she returned to Imbros, everything was different. In the few days of the authorization given by the school to move, she realized that this is a departure without return. Not that she will not come back here, but returning as a guest is something other than to belong to a place.

Rea Stathopoulou, Cyclists in Skirts (Oι ποδηλάτισσες), Oceanida Publications, 2004 
                                       [Pedal Çeviren Kadınlar, Metis, 2006]