POINT
OF
REFERENCE

SUMMER 1998

Published by SHMEION ANAFORAS / Point of Reference
A registered non-profit student organization of Harvard University

Table of Contents

Editorial

Euripides's Bacchae at the Agassiz Theater
by Mihalis Boutaris
An interview with the Director of the play.

Inventing Greece: The Emergence of Greek National Identity
by Peter Bien

National Memories:Understanding the Other, Taming your own
by Halil Berktay

The Price of Power: Honor and Self-Interest in Thucydidean Realism
by Seth Delong

Poems of Sidon: An Analysis of Cavafy's Historiography
by Paul Lekas

Legacies: Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey
by James J. Reid

The Cellars
by Jenny Mastoraki
Original poetry in Greek and Translation by Karen Van Dyck.

Treatise, written by an unknown hand
by Jenny Mastoraki
Original poetry in Greek and Translation by Karen Van Dyck.

Can't Go Back to Constantinople
by Mihalis Boutaris
An interview with the Director.

Young Men of Sidon (400 B.C.)
by Constantine P. Cavafy
Poetry in English text translated by Theo Theoharis

The Inter-Balkanic Press League: How a Publication From 1939 Reminds Us of the Value of Cooperation in the Balkan Area
by Dr. Ahmet Emin Yalman

Reflections
by Fanny Papageorgiou

Commentary on this Issue's Theme of Cultural Synchretism
by Cemal Kafadar

Credits and Notes