The volume "The Haemalia of Love and Chariots" by Andreas Empeirikos is reintroduced 50 years after its first announcement and 67 years after its writing, the great love trilogy of the poet:

1) "Argo or the Airship" - 1st edition with cuts in the magazine Pali, 1964-65, 1st book edition 1980.
2) "Zephyra or The Secret of Pasiphae" - 1st edition 1998.
3) "Beatrice or The Love of Buffalo Bill" - unpublished until today.

The edition is accompanied by a detailed introduction by the editor of the texts, Giorgos Giatromanolakis.

The famous "Argo" is written in the gloomy atmosphere of the civil conflict of December 1944. Shortly afterwards, the author experiences a traumatic experience: he is arrested, without any specific charge (apparently his surname was enough), by the Civil Guard of ELAS, the OPLA, and is taken hostage, along with many others, to Kora in Boeotia. He faces mortal dangers and great hardships until he manages to escape and return to Athens in a bad condition.

In "Argo or the Airship", two parallel stories are woven: on the one hand, the festive elevation, the takeoff of the airship "Argo" in the capital of Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogota, in 1906, with the three flamboyant aeronauts - the English Lord Albernon, the French explorer Ernest Larue Nancy, and the Russian Admiral Vladimir Vierkhou (with whom the poet identifies), and on the other hand, the dramatic story of the jealous professor Don Pedro Ramirez, his daughter Carlotta, and her Indian lover.

In "Zephyra or The Secret of Pasiphae", which takes place in Paris in 1902, we have the love story of a lion (named Zambezi) and the eponymous lion tamer in a circus. The game of love between man and beast is played out, not only in front of the circus audience, but with the threat of death. However, the natural animosity between beast and man is overcome for the triumph and glorification of the victorious love.

The unpublished "Beatrice or The Love of Buffalo Bill" is perhaps the most paradoxical text of Empeirikos in terms of its construction and therefore the way in which the narrative develops and concludes. Beatrice consists of two stories, but here both the place and the time of one story differ completely from the time and place in which the other story takes place. It is, one might say, a double "diptych" of love and "war" story, where one is contained within the other so that the mythical time of Beatrice is twofold. The first, the "external" story with which the text opens, refers to one of the many adventures of the famous hero of the American West, Buffalo Bill, or William Cody, and is set "a few years" after the American Civil War. The mythical time of the "internal" introspective story largely coincides with the time of the writing of the text itself - July-August 1945.

The embedded love story of the author with his future wife Vivika Zisi takes the form of letters, as it contains six letters exchanged between Vivika/Beatrice and Emperico/Buffalo Bill.

Excerpt:
"So Buffalo Bill was passing through one night in July - Buffalo Bill the great poet of the New World, the eagle of Colorado, Dante together and a tracker with the exquisite Beatrice, the softest, the most fragrant and the most beautiful flower of the meadow".

All the texts of Emperico's trilogy are subject to common basic ideas that support the same fundamental principles, the same ideology: the only way to overcome the many and varied contradictions of civilization, the only path and the only power that can liberate the world (socially, economically, politically) is love, the "boundless and unconditional" love. In this sense, all three texts of the trilogy narrate, each in its own way, a love story, but ultimately they also present a story of individual liberation and provide an image of future universal uplift and freedom. And all three stories have a political character. In all three stories (especially in Argo and Beatrice), we hear (muffled and from great depth, it is true) the horrific political and social events experienced by the author during the time of their writing. Don Pedro's violence is connected to the violence of the French Revolution that the French aviator remembers and, obviously, is not unrelated to what is happening in the bloodstained Athens of 1944-1945. The same can be observed in the story of Buffalo Bill. The slaughter of immigrants in the wild landscape of the Grand Canyon undoubtedly refers to the horrific ordeal of the hostage Emperico and other innocent people during the wild December of 1944. The violence in Zephyra is not only erotic, or the violence of wild animals - the accusation of the wandering poet shows that many forms of violence of human civilization are intertwined in the seemingly simple love story.

All these seemingly out-of-place and out-of-time love/romantic stories that develop and evolve within an initial environment of fear, violence, and death, in order for love and life to ultimately prevail undefeated, concern, as we have hinted, the person of the narrator himself, the author Emperico.

In Zephyra, the wandering poet of Paris, who appears as a mask and reflection of Andreas Emperico, accuses the cynics, the destitute, the "sleepwalkers of every human inadequacy, the champions of every defeat, the emasculated Christians [...] the defilers of love and weapons, the promoters of all kinds of art [...] the moralists and the immoralists, the filthy and the scatological of all kinds".