Manolis G. Antonopoulos, lawyer – DEA in public law Univ. Rene Descartes (PARIS V), political science graduate
AGAMEMNON he had provoked the wrath of the goddess Artemis by killing her sacred deer, causing the goddess to suffocate and preventing the Achaean fleet from sailing from the Court to Troy. They asked the seer Callchus what they should do, and he replied that the goddess’s wrath would only be averted if Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia. Iphigenia, Euripides tells us in his tragedy, prioritizing the general good, willingly takes the path of sacrifice, despite objections
of Achilles and her mother, Clytemnestra. At the last moment the goddess Artemis took pity on Iphigenia, grabbed her from the sacrificial altar and replaced her with a deer.
THAT’S ALL the parents of our (without quotes) 23-year-old Ifigenia Mitska from Giannitsa had in mind when they gave this name to their daughter. To remind us New Greeks with her name of the good will, the mental greatness, the concept of the predominance of the we over the ego. Some, however, sacrificed her on the altar of the greed of wealth… Our ancient ancestors did not even mythologically live such an image. They sacrificed the deer.
THE EPICURUS he said “the just is undisturbed, and the unjust is full of turmoil”. Nowadays we have turned it upside down. The unjust is not afraid of being punished by the laws and lives a blessed life. The righteous is worried, afraid and agitated in anticipation of punishment! Sometimes it leads to death…
EACH wind from the Tempe it brings sadness and anger. Every hour lost, an opportunity for disaster! As long as meritocracy, clientelism, corruption, impunity reign, institutions will collapse and citizens will drown.
IS truly terrible, observes Sophocles, for the impious to flourish without punishment. Then, in fact, have a good time. And the virtuous born of the brave should not be unhappy (“they see them as disrespectful of evil, having grown out of them. Let them do good, being the worst of the brave, if it is a fact, be miserable when they are destitute of money”).
WE HAVE debt in the face of the calamity we live reprehensible towards our children to ask:
Officials to rule in a manner and by means, so that duty exceeds ambition, their integrity above expediency.
Institutions should not be subject to circumstances.
Measure of facts should be man, as Protagoras proclaimed.
