Uncle Adonis: Ladies' Man — Wynn Parks

Though regarded in the village as something of a roue, Uncle Adonis is the closest thing Akis has to a father. Adonis and his cafenion cronies provide the young island boy a window onto manly ways of the world. As a child, Akis takes Uncle Adonis' reputation as a ladies' man on face value, i.e. image is the vessel in which the heart must sail. Later, as a know-it-all university student, he learns the tragic truth behind Uncle Adonis' reputation.