A Mania of Love

Plato proclaims two kinds of mania: one arising from disease, the other from love. Clarence, a bipolar classics professor, conjoins them while on sabbatical on the mystical Greek island of Hydra. 

His love affair there with a seductive French waitress becomes pathological when she threatens the professor’s marriage with his beloved wife. To escape her clutches he resorts to a violent solution justified on the ancient noble beliefs of the poet, Archilochus, and the belief of death - life transformations by Asklepeos, the father of  psychiatr
The method is macabre, worthy of a tragecomedy, but Clarence, because of his mental condition and classical idealism represses all memory of his heinous deed. It remains for the Inspector from Athens to determine whether Clarence has moral justification or whether he has to pay for his infidelity.