A poem in this language describes a journey to an island by exhorting the reader to "hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery."
A poem in this language describes a journey to an island by exhorting the reader to "hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery." Another poem in this language asks "Why did our emperor get up so early?" and notes "Those people were a kind of solution." (*) Constantine Cavafy's poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" is in this language, as is a novel about a character who plays the cimbalom, seduces Madame Hortense, and works in a lignite mine. The character of Zorba was created using this language by Nikos Kazantzakis. For 10 points, name this language, the modern variant of an ancient language used to write epics like The Iliad.
A poem in this language describes a journey to an island by exhorting the reader to "hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery."
Modern Greek (do not accept “Ancient Greek”; the first poem is Ithaca by Cavafy, and the last novel described is Zorba the Greek)