r. Iannis' chapter leads us through the ancient history of the Greeks and Cephallonia. Through his writing, he illustrates the landscape, the sea and we are led into the stories of the Odyssey.
             In the chapter following, the view, mood and time shifts and the reader is presented to an important figure of Modern History: Mussolini, the Italian dictator. The 'Duce' is featured to us in a dramatic monologue, here his character is exaggeratedly ridiculed by de Bernieres, to achieve humour and irony. His manners are often childish and his attempt to convey grandness and majesty fails, and comes across as foolish:
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