“My long-term coexistence with Byzantine texts allows me to gather facts that individually may be considered insignificant or of secondary importance, but when placed within the totality of historical information, they constitute interesting testimonies.

They are written in verse because I worked on them during sleepless nights and it was a way for me to remember their continuity and coherence the next day, precisely thanks to the rhyme.

So, these are lyrics, not exactly poems, that perhaps facilitate the understanding of a long and complex history such as that of Byzantium.” (from the foreword by El. Glykatzis-Arveler)