Prometheus in Athens

NAME: GIORGOS METAXAS

AGE: 25

PLACE OF RESIDENCE: AGIOI ANARGYROI

BIRTHPLACE: ATHENS

ORIGIN: MESSINIA AND KILKIS

ON THE NIGHT OF THE PERFORMANCE HE WILL COME TO THE HERODEION DRIVING HIS HONDA CBR RR 600 DOWN FROM AGIOI ANARGYROI AND THE AVENUES ACHARNON, PATISION, STADIOU AND SYGGROU, AND THEN HE WILL WALK TO DIONYSIOU AREOPAGITOU STREET.

He is studying informatics at the T.E.I. (Technological Educational Institutions) of Athens. When he was a child, his family owned a small 'entertainment hall' and so he grew up playing arcade games, billiard, table soccer etc. In his free time he helps his parents, who are now running a traditional Greek «kafeneio» (cafeteria) and plays the mpouzouki in a traditional Greek music band. About his professional future he says: “Everything is open. You never know what happens in life”. While serving the military for 8 months he was again reminded of the fact that “power corrupts. Education and culture are the enemies of religion and power”.
 
He isn’t familiar with ancient tragedies. However, he sees a connection between the Prometheus myth and the current situation in Greece: “Our country is Prometheus and the International Monetary Fund is the new Hephaistos who puts us in chains”.