Agni Berekmeri Co. is owned by myself, Agni Berekmeri, living in Greece for 22 years and Ildiko Dirzu, living in Athens for several years, both fluent Hungarian, Romanian, Greek and English speakers. We started the activities that formed eviagreece.com and later Agni Berekmeri Co. in the summer of 2004 and with the support of our clients, cooperators and our families, we have grown in to one of the specialist travel company's in the North of Evia island, Greece.
Eviagreece.com was founded through a passion to create a focused, knowledgeable and friendly travel service that was able to provide those seeking more than a "scrape the surface vacation" with a truly insightful, sensory filling journey. Judging from a sampling of our client comments,
we succeeded!
We believe that our clients visit and come to love our unknown island through in-depth encounters with our stunning landscapes, unique and exhilarating outdoor and adventure opportunities and our traditional greek culture.
According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly, or of the river Ladon in Arcadia. The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow. Ovid treats the encounter, Apollo's lapse of majesty, in the mode of elegaic lovers, and expands the pursuit into a series of speeches. Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel (Laurus nobilis): "a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breast, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy. Only her shining beauty was left. "
The laurel became sacred to Apollo, who made a wreath out of it, to console himself, and crowned the victors at the Pythian Games. Most artistic impressions of the myth focus on the moment of transformation. In the christian art the laurel is the sign of VICTORY.
