Epitaphios Phillis Levin the novel has much to

the novel has much to say about the power of forgiveness and the possibility of transcending hurt

He still lives there and teaches modern languages in a local comprehensive school

nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life

including Ken Jones

Epitaphios Phillis Levin the novel has much toOn 10 May 1936 the 27 year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated to the heroic workers of Salonika and drawing on the fourteenth century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christs tomb