ABOUT DEMOTHEO

“At 75, that’s my CV. The writer’s CV is writing.”

Demotheo, born Demosthenis Theoktistu in Panama in 1950, attended the Jesuit School of Panama City, where Latin was taught from 4th grade.

In 1965 he continued at Pinewood International High School in Thessaloniki, Greece.

He graduated in Physics (BSc) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His thesis, “Newton's Laws are Invulnerable to (Einstein's) Relativity”, begins from a simple danger: if Isaac Newton, perhaps the most “invulnerable” scientist of the last 1000 years, can be mistranslated from Latin into modern languages, then any accident of meaning is possible.

Next came what he calls accidents. First accident: the Faculté Libre d'Astrologie de Paris (Natal astrology), treated as a symbolic code to be tested. Second accident: the heavy artillery — Aristotle, Plato, and the Bible in the original Greek — found resistant to many later rumors when read without distortion.

After more than fifty years of such reading he names his method Repunctuation: exposing how later punctuation and interpretive habits falsify texts, and restoring readings he considers invulnerable to noise — a breaking of the code of ancient languages.

Applied to Shakespeare, Repunctuation repunctuates Hamlet’s Question so that it no longer obliges Hamlet’s tragedy. This work culminates in “Hamlet Hood”, an English-language thriller and historical fiction, published October 23, 2025 via Kindle on Amazon.com.

At 75 he calls this his CV; he has never kept a regular one. One exception: a hotel in Cyprus, where he narrated his speed to assist tourists at reception. Above all he is a teacher, including as a web instructor of how to read pages on the internet. He can trade fish, compose and perform for piano, and sing. He is a member of Archons.org, with a pile of ready manuscripts waiting while he was “too busy reading the Greek philosophers”.

A personal touchstone is Jerome Weidman’s article “The Night I Met Einstein”, read well over a hundred times online: a lesson in how one moment, correctly heard, can teach someone to love music — and meaning.