Theo Karagounis is the central protagonist of ‘The Ship of Stone’.. He’s a Roman (a native Greek of the Peloponnese) who has chosen to throw his lot in with the Frankish rulers of the Morea. When the story starts, his identification with the Franks is so complete that he can easily be mistaken for a native Frenchman and he’s proud that he dreams in French. However, as the story develops, things get a bit more complicated for our hero…