In-Cyprus

The destruction of Smyrna, and the refuge Cyprus gave its survivors

By Dr Sotiroula Vasileiou The poet Giorgos Seferis, born in Smyrna, left the city with his family in 1914, eight years before its destruction. He never lived through the catastrophe itself, but it marked him for life. In one poem, he conjures a horseman bringing fire, a househol…