Prometheus in Athens

NAME: THANASIS KATSIGANNIS

AGE: 37

PLACE OF RESIDENCE: NORTH EAST ATHENS

BIRTHPLACE: ATHENS

ORIGIN: XIROMERO (NEAR AGRINIO) AND LIMASSOL, CUPRUS

ON THE NIGHT OF THE PERFORMANCE HE WILL DRIVE WITH HIS CAR FROM HIS HOME TO “DOUKISSIS PLAKENTIAS” METRO STATION AND FROM THERE HE’LL GO TO “AKROPOLIS” STATION. THEN HE’LL WALK FROM DIONYSIOU AREOPAGITOU STREET TO HERODEION.

37-year-old astrophysicist Thanasis Katsigiannis works for the National Observatory. His sector of specialization and research is solar physics. He identifies himself with the positive side of Prometheus, as he explains, because the sun is the source for life on Earth and especially because, apart from fire, Prometheus declares himself the bringer of scientific knowledge.

One of his favorite personalities is Thales from Miletus, an ancient philosopher and mathematician who discovered the theorem. He was the first one to suggest that statement has to be proven on the basis of previously established statements, such as other theorems, and previously accepted statements, such as axioms, without relying on myths, gods etc.

[460] “Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences,” says Prometheus, and as Thanasis believes mathematics have definitely wisdom in it and it is the greatest science of all - the only one that could be fully proven.

However when it comes to ancient civilization, he does read ancient drama, but he is rather fond of their modern parodies, like Medea by the modern Greek writer Bost, where Medea repeatedly admits “one day I am going to kill these children!”.