The Greek woman who wrote this book is from Crete, she is a teacher and a writer. These three conditions contributed to the existence of a text like this, written exactly as it is.

Thirty years since its publication, the Parthenagogeion – a combination of theme and literary quality – remains a classic work in Greek letters, and is still referred to as a model of its genre.

If one were to analyze the Parthenagogeion, one could write a longer text than the limited pages it contains. There would be much to say about everything not written down, but which it suggests to you. And imposes upon you.

The pulse of the description, richness in the use of a vividly alive language, density of style in those points where the significance of the content is heaviest, an absolute realism that manages to create a poetic atmosphere, are characteristics of the value of the work.

MELPO AXIOTI, 1962