Back in the late 1970s, my mother scandalized her parents when she insisted on speaking to them in English, rather than in her native Greek, and refused to continue her Greek reading and writing classes at the local church. Things only got worse when she came downstairs one night wearing a tight dress and red lipstick, telling them she was planning on going with her boyfriend and friends to a disco. “Where did we go wrong!” they cried out, as they (quite literally) banged their heads against the wall (modern Greeks have never fully lost the knack for drama that the ancients were known for).
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