His essays

The Orpheus Myth in 20th Century Drama and Cinema
In the twentieth century, the choice of the Orphic myth opens a door to mystery, dream and lyricism, in an era of disillusionment, conflict and opposition. If myth is an ideal to be reached, a utopia, the myth of Orpheus is the myth of myths, the myth par excellence of ideals and of escape to an elsewhere, elements that characterize the writers who have devoted to this myth a greater or lesser place in their work: Victor Segalen, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, Marcel Camus, Yorgos Scourtis are authors who found in the myth of Orpheus the opportunity to speak of Justice, Purity, Art or Beauty.
In this study, Yorgos Archimandritis approaches the myth through the transformations that dramatic art imposes on it, in order to show how its symbolic core continues to exist, as if springing from the universal unconscious, according to Jung’s theory, and is inexplicably rediscovered inexplicably similar in the works of each era.
The essay is published by Septentrion Presses Universitaires