Panorea
Conveniences
This comfortable and warm Suite is inspired by the 16th century Bucolic Drama by Georgios Hortátsis “Panórea” and the rebellious temperament of this heroine. While its view does not include the Old Port but an interior secluded terrace, the room offers a Venetian piece of fireplace; a sighting which will surely meet your expectations. The Suite is equipped with all contemporary conveniences.
History
“Panórea” is a pastoral drama by George Hortátsis combined by almost 2.500 rhyming Iambic lyrics of 15 syllables. Panórea is written under the idiom of Western Crete. Here, two couples of shepherds are the main characters: Géparis loves Panórea and Aléxis loves Athoúsa, however the two shepherd girls do not deign their love and wish to live freely, hunting in mountains and forests. Old- Giannoúlis, father of Panórea and old-Froséne, mother of Géparis, characters mostly comic, try in vain to form the unyielding character of the girls. In the end, the two shepherd boys shall turn to goddess Afrodéte, and her son Éros strikes the two girls with his arrows, thus giving a happy ending. Hortátsis combines the real pastoral life of Crete with ancient Greek mythology.
Slightly after the writing of Panórea, Hortátsis fulfills his tragedy “Erophéle”, influenced by Giraldi’s tragedy “Orbecche”.