Erotas (season 1)

infobox tvseason
season_name = Erotas Season 1


caption =
dvd_release_date = July 29, 2006 (Greece and Australia only)
September 17, 2006 (USA, Cyprus, United Kingdom)
dvd_format = Widescreen
country = Greece
network = ANT1
first_aired = September 8, 2005
last_aired = June 24, 2006
num_episodes = 225
Prev = none
Next = Erotas Season 2|

This article contains a summary of the first season of the Greek soap opera television series "Erotas".

Background

We are introduced to the upper class society of Athens, they have all the money that they could possibly want. But their personal dilemmas far outweigh their wealth. A successful heart surgeon and a dynamic business woman enjoy personal and family completion with their daughter. All seems wonderful in their life until the moment that the woman's ex-husband sets it as his objective to destroy her life.

Cast

tarring

*Koralia Karanti- Myrto Anagnostou
*Gregoris Valtinos- Ektoras Anagnostou
*Noni Ιoannidou- Vera Douka
*Georgia Apostolou- Martha Douka
*Stefanos Kiriakidis- Stefanos Doukas
*Katerina Didaskalou- Ioulia Anagnostou
*Adamantia Kontogiorgi - Antigoni Douka
*Dimitris Liakopoulos- Pavlos Doukas
*Manos Papayiannis - Renos Doukas
*Christos Vasilopoulos- Lefteris Argiriou
*Yiannis Spaliaras - Alexandros

Also Starring

*Elena Keramida- Eva Anagnostou
*Natasha Tsakarisianou - Basiliki
*Manos Zaharakos- Konstantinos
*Patricia Peristeri- Christina Douka
*Victor Kolasis- Markos Anagnostou

Notable Guest Star

Ratings

The series, opened to very strong ratings, ranking 4th within Greece, and 2nd in its timeslot, unable to beat the immensely popular Vera Sto Dexi.

Plot summary

Myrto/Ektora/Lefteri/Ioulia

A successful heart surgeon and a dynamic business woman enjoy personal and family completion with their daughter. All seems wonderful in their life until the moment that the woman's ex-husband sets it as his objective to destroy her life. Myrto and Ektora enjoy this life, but not for long, as Ioulia sets out to destroy their marriage. Ektora has an affair with his old flame and she makes sure that Myrto finds out about it writing a vivid diary detailing the affair after it is over. Due to this and the fact that Myrto also caught Hector cheating on her with Stella, a barmaid from Mykonos, they divorce and part their separate ways. Myrto meet Lefteri, a man at 10 years her junior and they fall passionately in love, however she is hesitant to commit to him, not because of his convict past but rather the age difference. The night before her wedding to Lefteri, Myrto has an affair with Ektora, despite this, Myrto and Lefteri still marry as Myrto realises that he only went to bed with her, because he didn't approve of Lefteri being near his daughter. Ektora also had an affair with his secretary planning to marry her after she fell pregnant, but they cut ties when she miscarried. Furthermore, Ioulia later cut herself on a poisonous vile, that paralysed her from the waist down for 6 months, she went overseas for treatment, and hasn't been heard from since.

Antigoni and Vera

Myrto's and Stefano's youngest child Antigoni was taken by her best-friend, Vera, 15 years ago, when Antigoni was 4 years old after Antigoni wondered off during a fight between Myrto and her now first husband, Stefanos. Vera was also having a 20 year affair with Stefanos during Myrto's and Stefanos's marriage, she marries Stefanos early in the first season. Soon after, Antigoni returns and despises her biological parents as she was led to believe by Vera that they treated her badly. When she realises that her parents truly love her, and missed her deeply, the secret of her kidnapping is exposes and she is ostrisised by the family. Antigoni defends her saying that she is the only mother she has ever known, however Myrto and Vera's friendship is ruined forever. Later in the season, Antigoni marries Alexandros, Stefanos's henchman against her parents will, whom she only met months before their marriage. He is a golddigger, and Vera encouraged him to marry Antigoni as she is seeking revenge on Stefanos for ignoring her after the secret of the kidnapping is exposed. Vera is persistent with Stefanos refusing to let him push her out of his life and trying to make their marriage work.

Pavlos and Christina

Pavlos is Myrto's and Stefano's second chld, and serves as the comic relief during this season. His relationship with Christina changes significantly throughout the season. It begins with her having complete control, but when Pavlos reverses the power he cheats on her with Ekctora's secretary's cousin. However, she moves back to London to continue with her studies and Pavlos and Christina are reunited at the end of the season.

Renos and Martha

Renos is Myrto's and Stefano's eldest son, at the start of the first season, he is having an affair with his childhood flame, Martha. She is married to Andreas, living in Mykonos in a loveless marriage, that she only went through with because she believed that her son, Panayioti was his. A paternity test is done and it is realised that Renos is the father of the child, and Martha and Renos officially become a couple. Within months they marry and Renos pressures Martha to make the move to Athens with her child. She reluctantly accepts, and Renos buys a new house which he tours with his son and his father, Stefanos. Panayioti falls off a third storey balcony during the tour and dies. Martha leaves Renos blaming him for the accident, she soon makes plans to move away from him and his family and make a new start. Shortly before she leaves she realises that she is still in love with Renos but decides to move forward with the leave as it will be the only way to leave behind the death of her son, during her farewell party her psychotic ex-husband sets a bomb, in the season finale all the core-characters are in the vicinity of the accident except Hector and Myrtle who run towards the house wondering if anyone has survived.