Word: marianthi
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...Mark Wahlberg) earned his wounds in the sort of battle familiar to action-movie fans: Coming home one night, he found his wife Michelle (Marianthi Evans) and their child murdered. Max caught up with two of the perps but caught only a fleeting glimpse of the fleeing chief villain. (The movie gets its suspense from tracking clues to the third man.) We know that this kind of film introduces wives and kids for the sole purpose of killing them off and turning a loving husband into a revenge machine. You got the same deal in this summer's Death Race...
...that she might have milk, Papouas got Marianthi a goat, and also acquired the services of an orderly to milk and tend the animal. Marianthi knew that many simmoritissai who were sick, wounded, or burdened by babies had been left to die or be taken by the enemy; but she thought that such things could never happen...
Raid on the Village. When she was five months pregnant, Marianthi and Papouas asked their chieftain for permission to marry. He answered: "When ships are sinking, it is no time to talk of weddings." Later, however, he consented. The wedding was celebrated with a raid on a village, feasting, singing and dancing. Marianthi, of course, did not dance, but she was moved by the strains of her favorite song: "Ossa sidera o Truman na rixi nikitis thane panto, o laos" (However much iron Truman throws in, the people will always be victorious...
Then came a desperate week of marching and hiding. There was almost no food. The goat fell sick, and then Marianthi and Papouas fell sick. The doctor said angrily that they had caught a fever from the goat. Papouas was captured by the enemy, and Marianthi, disheartened and dizzy with fever, gave herself...
...Larissa, a Greek army court sentenced Papouas and Marianthi to death. When her husband was taken out of the long whitewashed room, Marianthi knew she would never see him again. Last week Marianthi sat in a whitewashed cell, remembering, brooding, waiting for death...