Reveler, gambler and yokel
The mural
He is characterized as a yokel, a hard worker, an alcoholic, a man of prosperity and dance and an "empirical wise man". In 1917, during Halloween he roused everybody at Stoupa into a celebration. He had been dressed as a masquerader and performed funny sketches, everybody was laughing and they enjoyed their time there. Despite his attraction to the female sex, he never gave anybody in the closed local community any rights to gossip- which did not allow room for situations such as this anyway. He often travelled to Kalamata in his boat, pretending there is some deficiency, in order to visit the infamous neighborhood.
As seen on
Kazantzakis and the real Zorbas in Mani