Few relish holidaying alone. I met Freida, who did, at a mutual cousin’s home in Ireland, who was thrilled I was living among Greeks. A love of Greek and Roman intellectual heritage had drawn her to a university colleague, her now her ex-fiancé. Her Greek was superior to mine but her accent, dominated by Boston-Irish-heritage vowels would have puzzled the ancients she loved more than my accented Kypriaka.
She decided
