A unique book about the story of Theodoros Kolokotronis. A storyteller and mythmaker, determined from a young age, a thief and rebel, soldier and general, one among many, yet the first among equals, born from the depths of the Morea and the defender of his people.

A balancer and motivator, inclusive and unifying, allegorical and pragmatic, deeply moving, yet unwaveringly harsh in pursuit of his goals, Theodoros Kolokotronis emerges through selected stories that have been told about him or that he himself narrated at the right time.

"The Morea does not kneel, Theodoros writes to you, and if you wish to wage war, come and let us measure ourselves!" When I entered Tripolitsa, they showed me the Plane Tree in the market where they hanged the Greeks. I sighed and said, "Alas, how many from my kin and from my nation were hanged there," I ordered it to be cut down.