ITHACA - C.P.Cavafy - Sean Connery - AENAOS PLEFSIS

original sound from babylonianman's video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk

ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΟΛΥ ΤΟΝ ΠΛΟΙΑΡΧΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ ΚΑΤΡΗ KAI TOYΣ ΣΥΜΠΑΤΡΙΩΤΕΣ ΜΟΥ ΓΙΩΡΓΟ ΚΑΡΑΒΙΑ, ΑΓΓΕΛΟ ΚΑΤΩΠΟΔΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΡΕΣΤΗ ΚΑΧΡΙΛΑ. ΜΑΚΑΡΙ ΟΛΟΙ ΟΙ ΘΙΑΚΟΙ ΝΑ ΑΓΑΠΟΥΣΑΜΕ ΤΟ ΝΗΣΙ ΜΑΣ ΟΠΩΣ ΑΥΤΟΙ

Ithaca home of odysseus AND MY HOME - the famous poem by C.P.Cavafy - narration by Sean Connery

ΑΕΝΑΟΣ ΠΛΕΥΣΙΣ

http://www.ithacos.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=26

http://www.mykefalonia.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7455

http://www.politropos.gr

[Strongly rhythmical music starts]

(Aenaos Pléfsis - eternal journey)

(Omiros - Homer)

(Map of Ithaka)

(Itháki - Ithaka)

(Odisséas - Ulysses)

[Sean Connery] As you set out for Ithaka

Hope that your journey is a long one

full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians and Cyclops,

angry Poseidon

do not be afraid of them:

you’ll never find things like that on your way

as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,

as long as a rare sensation touches your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians and Cyclops,

wild Poseidon

— you won’t encounter them

unless you bring them along inside your soul,

unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope that your journey is a long one.

May there be many summer mornings

when, with what pleasure, what joy,

you come into harbors seen for the first time;

may you stop at Phoenician trading stations

to buy fine things,

mother of pearl and coral, amber, ebony,

sensual perfume of every kind —

as many sensual perfumes as you can;

and may you visit many Egyptian cities

to learn and learn again from those who know.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you are destined for.

But do not hurry the journey at all.

Better if it lasts for years,

so that you are old by the time you reach the island,

wealthy with all you have gained on the way,

not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.

Without her you would not have set out.

She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.

Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,

you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

(Odysseus Journey to Ithaca)

(Aénaos Pléfsis - eternal journey)

(2008)

(Omiros2)