23596 - Corrected reissue
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
When a conqueror has beseiged your city for twenty one consecutive years in order to destroy any resistance to barbarism, and then, as he managed to break your front, he went on to changing the name of the castle of the sea, so that it would be assumed to be his.
And as finally after countless battles we’ve managed to get rid of this seige, some of our own retained the name by habit, because they didn’t further know their history.
Eons later, a beautiful restoration and reinstatement occurred through our archeology.
In such a manner, that Crete could again see the value of a monument, worth belonging to the World Heritage monuments, as is the Acropolis, which isn’t called a gunpowder keg, merely because some functioned in a certain manner on the Parthenon, or Hagia Sophia, which isn’t called a mosque because some used it In such a way.
We see therefore, that if we want to move on to this stage of recognition, it would be wise,that following the restoration of this valuable battering structure, for the reinstatement to the original name to occur as well, leaving behind once and for all a nasty name of a conqueror.
In other countries people change names which were chosen by their own who had actually built the structures.
Just why should we maintain a name of a conqueror who didn’t built it in the first place, although we are a nation pro justice and mnemosyne, especially when we claim to belong to Humanity through those monuments.