Content note: Wartime caricature mocking a territorial claim over Kavala; the joke centres on a horse's hindquarters. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Θέλεις και σὺ Καβάλλα; (Do You Want Kavala Too?)
Lithograph poster, priced at 20 lepta, of a caricatured rider in Greek dress on a large horse, tongue out, while a uniformed figure with epaulettes and a sabre bends with his face at the horse's tail, under the headline 'Do you want Kavala too?'. The tell: a territorial claim is answered with a mocking caricature and no argument, ridicule doing the work of a reply.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Patriotic Union (Patriotiki Enosis), Athens; lithograph by V. Papachrysanthou, Athens
- Country
- Kingdom of Greece
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Venizelos Government
- Leader
- Eleftherios Venizelos
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (source credited to www.ethnos.gr), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (anonymous poster, published c. 1917-1918, before 1931); Commons tag PD-EU-no author disclosure
Lithograph by V. Papachrysanthou, Athens, for the Patriotic Union, c. 1917-1918; via Wikimedia Commons (File:Greece-1917-war-poster-08-47x56cm.jpg).
Text on the object
ΘΕΛΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥ ΚΑΒΑΛΛΑ; [monogram] ΠΑΤΡΙΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΝΩΣΙΣ ΒΟΥΚΟΥΡΕΣΤΙΟΥ 9 ΛΕΠΤΑ 20 [vertical, right edge:] Λιθ. Β. Παπαχρυσάνθου Αθήναι
DO YOU WANT KAVALA TOO? [monogram] PATRIOTIC UNION 9 Voukourestiou [Street] 20 LEPTA [vertical, right edge:] Lith. V. Papachrysanthou, Athens
The vertical imprint on the right edge is very small and was read from the committed image together with the printer named in the Commons description. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
