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Niece Attractive Cyrus Deviner Ευρωπαϊκή ΕταιρείαΝεοελληνικών Σπουδώνu- Γ' συνέδριο της Ευρωπα�κής Εταιρείας Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Βουt ουρέστι, 2-4 Ιουνίου 2006) Niece Attractive Cyrus Deviner

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A monk by his own confession , Zacharias Karandinos from Aetolia is the author of two tragedies written in α Greek setting itself the aim to imitate ancient Greek , a divine service dedicated to Saints Panagos and Christos , a word for Christ and a dialogue between the soul and the body.All this stuff is kept in a manuscript undated but datable at the beginning of the 18th cent. [9] kept in the Library of the Romanian Academy.

The first play is called Domna (The Princess) and bears clearcut features of an ancient tragedy. Its characters are the The Nurse, the Servant, the Princess, Constantine, the chorus of young girls, the King of the Arabs, the first, the second and the third son of Constantine and his daughter.

At its inception there is in the same tradition a précis

In the year 1711 A.D. under Sultan Ahmet a war was initiated by this latter against the kingdom of Moscow and thus sending his armies against the Russians ( in this he was helped by Constantine Bassarab the then prince of the whole Wallachia as he was the Sultan’s subject). Thus as no little time went by he was calumniated by someone to the Sultan as wanting to become an apostate and help the Russians and fight with them against the Empire. In order to prevent this from happening the Sultan was even more stirred to punish Constantine for his gold, as he was rich from his forefathers and also loved to get gold. For this reason as he took him and his sons from post to post in chains to Constantinople first he killed the sons in front of him and then him himself (f.25r)

The play Domna starts with a lament by the nurse who would rather that:

…The gold of the whole earth got lost , it never came out of nature’s caves, the shiny sunshine never penetrated there again to make the gold get born without pain …[the gold] got buried again so that the miners could never reach it again…(f.25r)

Mention is made of Hecuba:

....We have suffered bad things, very bad things,which go above lament for pain and are worth many tears.That what Hecuba has suffered was nothing....(f.39 r)

There is then the Princess lamenting in her turn the departure of her husband and sons and fears the worst as she had had a dream implying the "reigning town of Constantine" which her husband had reached and from where his image "threw dark black beams". She dreads the "barbarians" as "they do in a barbarian way everything they act ". Her hope lies with Virgin Mary "mistress queen of all the things in heaven and taller than the firmament" (f.29r).

An extensive part of the play is dedicated to the dialogue between Prince Brâncoveanu and the Arab[10] king and yet a lengthier one to the scene of decapitation in which the father has to tell every one of his sons into not resisting the final blow. The youngest son though is the most reluctant and therefore his father’s plead has to be more convincing:

Why, oh child do you fear death so much as to have your face pale? Why should you be afraid of death which bestows you with immortality an undeceiving lot ? Did you not see this is not death but an achievement of salvation? Happy you really if thus you display wholeheartedly a clear conscience. Without sighing you embraced rather sorrow than pleasure as you were honoured to be beheaded for the sake of the truth. Being pious you have to act in piety as if you knew from the beginning that you were more important than many words than sacred people who give speeches in the gymnasia healing in holy gardens. Pray stay in the faith in which you were rightfully reared as a scion who has increased his power many times you have to shake the fruit in a celestial trough, in an intangible monastery where God is happy with the celestial legions with incessant and irrepressible voices raising hymns thrice together with nature.(f.57v)

The Princess buries her family, is happy to have been left with her daughter and hopes she is no more in for more misfortunes.

The choir is present approxiamtely
An angel puts in an appearance.

Dedicated to prince Constantine Brancoveanu killed by the Turks in 1714 this play written in Greek is part of a whole multilingual series comprising Abbe Prevost’s Le monde moral[11] as well as Romanian heroic epic songs (Aga Bălăceanu and Constantin Brâncoveanu)[12] and a prayer.[13]

While in all the contributions with the exception of the prayer there is a common element namely Brâncoveanu’s trespass consisting in his being greedy or unfair which brought about his punishment by God, in Domna and in Monde moral he is seen as a hero of Christianity. The same does not go for the Romanian epic songs which are an echo of the real historical facts. The prince was betrayed by the boyards from among which was Bălăceanu and the songs seem to be part of a biased tradition favourable to the latter.

The second tragedy, Avel,(f.68r-107v) concentrates on the Holy Creation and could fit perfectly well in the Western Corpus Christi cycle, namely in its first ages[14] and more precisely in the Cain and Abel plays[15] . Its characters are The Body, the Soul, the Blood, Adam, Eve, Abel , his guardian angel, Cain, a semi-choir and God.

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