"When […] we had crossed the border between Turkey and Greece, a Greek trader, my fellow traveler, dismounted from his horse and kissed the soil. “We have trodden upon Hellenic ground,” he said.—My God! How red this ground is!—Yes! Because it is saturated with blood! I immediately made some verses, which I also declaimed with a prophetic inspiration. My intoxication intensified when I first saw the famous Parthenon from a distance."
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Quoted in When in the Balkans, Do as the Romans Do—Or Why the Present is the Wrong Key to the Past (2012), p. 115. Originally in Autobiography (1894), p. 361.
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Grigor Parlichev
Grigor Stavrev Parlichev (Bulgarian: Григор Ставрев Пърличев; Macedonian: Григор Ставрев Прличев; 18 January 1830 – 25 January 1893) was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and translator.
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