"Fifteen years and more were needed by Tasos Athanasiadis to bring to a worthy conclusion this literary endeavor that should secure him a completely unique and special place within the entirety of modern Greek prose... there is no similar case of a long-breath novel in our literature. Nor is there a similar intention to present a river-novel through the history of a characteristic family, the Pantheons, the social, psychological, and historical Greece of the first forty years of our century." (Andreas Karantonis)

"Tasos Athanasiadis is above all a stylist who grapples with the very things themselves, who touches life at its joints. His word is chosen, the phrase sculpted, the tone consistently calculated, with the vigilant care of an artist who fears that even the slightest discord could disturb the balance of the whole..." (Giannis Chatzinis)