Rigas Feraios, 1797: the revolutionary song that called the peoples to freedom — a Greek myth retold in easy Greek, level B1, with glossary and audio.

Rigas Feraios (1757–1798), a writer and revolutionary of the Enlightenment, wrote the Thourios in 1797 to call enslaved peoples to fight together for freedom. A brief introduction precedes the famous opening lines, which ask how long brave young men must live alone in mountains and caves, and end with the slogan that one hour of free life is worth more than forty years of slavery and prison. The song shows rhetorical questions and the subjunctive with 'na' at work.