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The story of Penelope Delta

  • Birth

    Birth

    Alexandria of Egypt, 1874
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    Childhood

    The third child of Emmanouil Benaki and Virginia Choremi. She had five brothers and sisters (Antoni, Alexandra, Alexandros, Argini, Konstantinos)
    1883 the family moved to Athens
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    She married Stefano Delta and had 3 daughters (Sofia, Virginia, Alexandra)
  • Big Love

    Big Love

    They met in Alexandria and fall in love. But they never manage to be together.
  • ''For the Country''

    ''For the Country''

    She wrote her first novel ''For the Counrty''. It was about the Byzantine Empire.
  • The disease

    The disease

    She got a serious dease, polio, which thorns her till her death. She gradually gets paralitic.
  • ''Trelandonis''

    ''Trelandonis''

    A very famous novel of her. It's about her brother Antoni.
  • ''Sta mystika tou valtou''

    ''Sta mystika tou valtou''

    It is about the fight of the Greeks against the Boulgarians who wanted to conquer Makedonia.
  • Death

    Death

    She couldn't stand the conquer of Athens from the Germans and she poisoned herself the day that the German army came to Athens. She left a letter to her family.