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Kolokotronis’s Memoirs: Excerpt About the Klephts

“To be a ‘Klepht’ was a boast. He would say “I’m a Klepht” and this was the wish of the fathers of a child, for him to become a Klepht. ‘Klepht’ came from the authority. In my father’s time, it was a sacred thing for them to disturb a Greek. And when the klephts came to a skirmish with the Turks, all the farmers would leave their agricultural work, and they would go help the Klephts. In my days, they are punished and Greeks collaborated with the Turks. When Androutsos came, the father of Odysseas, I met him in Mani, and I accompanied him until Corinth. In our persistent persecution, for fifteen days we neither slept nor ate, we spent the ammunition, there was war every day.” Kolokotronis’s Memoirs, Recorded by C. Tertseti, edited by Tasos Vournas, Athens 1983, p. 64. Translated by: A Greek Historia Music Credit: Jade by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au