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Distinguished members of the “Wide-Field Monitoring The Dynamic Radio Sky” International Workshop, 12 – June 2007. Dear nephew Tassos Tzioumis Honorable mayor of the Municipality of Σεβασιότατε Σεβασιότατε &Μητροπολίτη Μαντινεία̋ Κυνουρία̋ Αλέ Αξιότιε ήαρχεΒαλτετσίου του ήου Your Grace Metropolitan of & Kynoureia Al

• • • • • • Homer, “The Odyssey: Vol. 1, Books 1 12”,– trans. It is my pleasure to welcome you here in my ancestr of Kerastari, and wish you an enjoyable and product in the heartland of mythical . I will conclude my welcome with two brief stories t relate to the workshop: Last year I visited the village briefly and stoped aunt, one of the oldest persons in the village, goi with old age. Like Homer, she told me the story of the Ancient Te peak of the mountain over the village. Odysseus, on his return from to Ithaca and the establishment of his kingdom there, set out to sea fulfil the prophesy given by the soothsayer Teiresi Odysseus’ visit to Hades

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in Arcadia, carrying their oars, with instructions inland till they found a place where the locals did recognize what the oars were for. Finding that the of Kerastari were unaware of the use of oars, his s word to Odysseus who then came and built a temple t at the top of the Asea (Agios Elias) mountain, just village of Kerastari. In dedicating the temple to Odysseus sought to appease Poseidon for the blindin Poseidon’s son, the one-eyed Cyclops Polyfimos, in Odysseus’ famous battles for survival on his return Ithaca. It goes to show the persistence of oral tradition f Odysseus to Homer to my old aunt. of the and sent a team of sailors to th 1946reprint), Book 11, 100 lines 137,– at pp. 393 PoS(Dynamic2007)046 , 2 ” ” the modern n our excerpt from pp. 65– 66. ανθρώπου ! by Odysseas Elytis

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Άξιον To Axion Esti Ποιητή !!! Στον Ποιητή αιώνα !!! σου,Βλέπεις? τι Odysseas Elytis, 2 The other story is a quotation of a few lines from Greek poem, Βλέπω λείψανα παλειώνΒλέπω λείψανα άστρων και αρραχνιασένεςΓωνίες του σύπαντος σαpώση Που θα η πουγεννήση καταιγήδα θα νούς ο του that just so happens to describe this workshop: “

“Poet!!! In your times what do you see? I see remnants of old stars and dusty forgotten corners of the universe that will be swept and illuminated by the STORM TO BE CREATED BY MAN’S MIND!!!” So with poet Elytis inspired admonition let us begi work!!