"The Queen of the Archipelago"

“The Queen of the Archipelago” confesses:

"This is my Iliad and Odyssey. My life. I chose to live freely and independently. To have a fair wind on my journey, I sacrificed the role that was designated to me by society, the role of wife and mother, as Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Phocaea was the land of the lotus-eaters for me. I forgot what bound me to my class and grasped an inappropriate love. In Miletus, I entered the cave of the Cyclops, the house of a great courtesan, I pierced his eye spying on the secrets of paid love, renounced my identity and, like Nobody, I won the freedom to set for myself the rules of the game., My Iliad was played in Troas, my search for new horizons. In Sigeion, the war I did not go to, I participated with my soul, Atalanta. Athens was the island of Aeolus for me, the island of the wind and spirit god. I learned how to soften passion by the power of knowledge, wisdom. But, when I left, I ran aground on the island of Calypso and ignoring the spirit, I fell in love and wanted to live the traditional role of a wife, role which I had renounced at the beginning of my Journey. I lost myself and leaving, I almost died. I survived to be enchanted by the song of the sirens, the music of Sappho who offered me a strong but impossible love. I experienced it, but I did not let it seduce me. Fatigue and loneliness drove me to the nets of Circe, a dangerous love and the underworld where it lived. To escape, I made the trip to Crete, where I experienced the horror of Laestrygonians and was saved by a hair’s breadth. In the course of my journey in life, I lost my companions and my boat. Weary, I returned to my Ithaca to claim the love of my soul and find eternal peace ".