1943 . Working energetically despite the privations of the German occupation , Kazantzakis completes the second drafts of Buddha , Alexis Zorbas , and the Iliad translation . Then he writes a new version of Aeschylus ’ s Prometheus trilogy .
1944 . In the spring and summer he writes the plays Capodistria and Constantine Palaiologos . Together with the Prometheus trilogy , these cover ancient , Byzantine , and modern Greece . After the German withdrawal , Kazantzakis moves immediately to Athens , where he is offered hospitality by Tea Anemoyanni . He witnesses the phase of the civil war called the " Dekemvriana " ( the December events ).