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).