:Theodore Stephanides

Theodore Philip Stephanides was born on 21 January 1896 in Bombay, British India (present-day India), to Philip (Philippos) Stephanides, a native of Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and Caterina Ralli, of Greek descent, born and educated in London."Theodore Stephanides: A Brief Biography" (author not mentioned; it could be Richard Pine or Anthony Hirst), in Theodore Stephanides, Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems, Durrell School of Corfu & International Lawrence Durrell Society, 2011, pp. 12–18. Stephanides' father worked for a company that belonged to Ralli Brothers, a British family of Greek origin, while Stephanides' mother was part of that family. Stephanides spent his early years in Bombay, and since his family only spoke English at home, it was his first language.[https://books.google.com/books?id=cEfhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 Vera Konidari, "Theodore Stephanides, Man of Letters", in Paschalis Nikolaou (ed.), Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 192–198, {{ISBN|978-1-5275-4871-8}}.{{Cite web|url=http://diatribe-column.blogspot.com/2006/12/theodore-stephanides-homo-universalis.html|author=Dean Kalimniou|title=Diatribe: Theodore Stephanides: Homo Universalis}}

In 1907, as Stephanides' father retired, the family moved first to Marseilles, France, and shortly afterwards to Rallis' estate in Corfu.[https://books.google.com/books?id=TQXPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 Vera Konidari, "Theodore Stephanides: Trailing the Islands of His Mind", in Richard Pine, Vera Konidari (eds.), Islands of the Mind: Psychology, Literature and Biodiversity], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 140–155, {{ISBN|978-1-5275-4661-5}}. It was only then that Stephanides began to learn Greek, at the age of 11. He would speak Greek with a strong British accent.Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell, London: Faber and Faber, 2000, p. 6.

Stephanides served as a gunner in the Greek army on the Macedonian front in 1917–1918.[https://www.hist.auth.gr/sites/default/files/Theodore%20Stephanides%20at%20the%20Macedonian%20Front%2C%201917%E2%80%931918%20-%20Anthony%20Hirst.pdf Anthony Hirst, "Theodore Stephanides at the Macedonian Front, 1917–1918"], presentation (Saturday 12 May 2018) at the Conference "The Macedonian Front 1915–1918: Politics, Society & Culture in Time of War", Thessaloniki, May 10–13, 2018. Following that, he participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. Subsequently, he would write Macedonian Medley; 1917–1918, an account of his participation in the Macedonian campaign, based on a diary he kept during that time. For 18 months, he served in a relatively calm and stable area, south of Ghevgheli and near the towns of Kilkis and Isvor. He often acted as a liaison with British and French units, owing to his knowledge of English and French.

In 1921–1922, Stephanides was detained and court-martialed for "insulting" King Constantine I of Greece, after he refused to take part in a December 1921 service which celebrated the king's return to Greece. The incident was caused by Stephanides' resentment with the Greek military authorities and his political views: he was a strong supporter of Eleftherios Venizelos,Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell (2000), p. 5. the prime-minister of Greece in 1910–1920, who was in conflict with Constantine I.Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, London: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 95, {{ISBN|0-521-00479-9}}.

After his demobilization, Stephanides moved to France, where he studied medicine at the University of Paris (specialization of radiology) between 1922 and 1928, one of his professors being Marie Curie.{{Cite journal|last1=Mpaltas|first1=C.|last2=Balanika|first2=A.|date=2016-12-13|title=Th. Stefanidis: His first steps as radiologist in Corfu|url=http://www.hjradiology.org/index.php/HJR/article/view/86|journal=Hellenic Journal of Radiology|language=en|volume=45|issue=4|pages=125–127|doi=10.36162/hjr.v45i4.86}}Marios-Byron Raizis, "Lawrence Durrell and the Greek Poets: A Contribution to Cultural History", in Anna Lillios (Ed.), Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World (Susquehanna University Press, 2004), pp. 250–252. In 1929, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on microscopy techniques, at the same university.{{Cite web |url=http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nyamtheses/nyamcovers/H00515836S.pdf |title=Title page of Stephanides' thesis (in French, p. 54). |access-date=13 December 2020 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027163357/http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nyamtheses/nyamcovers/H00515836S.pdf |url-status=dead }}

While in Paris, Stephanides also practiced astronomy and was highly regarded by Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer. Stephanides' professional interest in astronomy dates back to as early as the summer of 1914, when he observed the Sun for two months and made 24 drawings of various groups of sunspots.

[http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1915LAstr..29...83T "Société Astronomique de France. Séance du Dimanche 7 Février 1915", in L'Astronomie, 1915, vol. 29, pp. 83–94.] For this research, he was made member of the French Astronomical Society in February 1915. Stephanides would continue making astronomical observations until the end of his life.

In the 1920s, Stephanides began his work as a translator of Greek poetry into English. In 1925 and 1926, he published two volumes of Greek poems belonging to Kostis Palamas"Editor's Introduction" (by Richard Pine), in Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems (2011), pp. 9–11. and other modern Greek poets. These translations were coauthored with George Katsimbalis, the man portrayed in Henry Miller's novel The Colossus of Maroussi along with Stephanides himself and Lawrence Durrell.Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Seeker and Warburg, 1942. They met during World War I and would become lifelong friends and collaborators.

Stephanides returned to Corfu in 1928. The same year, along with his friend Philoctetes Paramythiotis (1893–1996), Stephanides founded the first radiological laboratory of the Ionian Islands. They co-directed the X-ray unit until 1938, when Stephanides moved to Thessaloniki. A somewhat fictionalized account of Stephanides' work at the radiological laboratory appears in The Durrells series (season 3), with young Margo Durrell acting as his assistant.

In 1930, Stephanides married Mary Alexander, the granddaughter of a former British consul in Corfu. The couple had one child, Alexia Stephanides-Mercouri (1931–2018).{{Cite web|title=Athens Diary 2018 | Catherine Brown|url=https://catherinebrown.org/athens-diary-2018/}} Alexia was a close friend of Gerald Durrell in Corfu, and Stephanides hoped that the two would marry one day, but the outbreak of World War II ruined these plans.{{Cite news|last=Haag|first=Michael|date=15 April 2017|title='My father always hoped that Gerry and I would marry,' by Gerard Durrell's childhood friend|newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/father-always-hoped-gerry-would-marry-gerard-durrells-childhood/|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{Cite web|last=Haag|first=Michael|date=15 April 2017|title=Michael Haag: Alexia Stephanides, Gerald Durrell's Closest Friend in Corfu|url=https://michaelhaag.blogspot.com/2017/04/alexia-stephanides-gerald-durrells.html}} Alexia went on to marry Spyros Mercouris (1926–2018), the brother of Greek actress Melina Mercouri.{{Cite web|title=Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin|url=https://www.facebook.com/melinamercourijulesdassin/posts/1209573462515834 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/793064480833403/1209573462515834 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|website=www.facebook.com}}{{cbignore}} They had two children, Pyrrhus and Alexander Mercouris.{{Cite web|title=Corfus of the Mind | Catherine Brown|url=https://catherinebrown.org/corfus-of-the-mind/}}

Stephanides grew interested in freshwater biology in the 1930s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323247515|title=Peter G. Sutton, "Durrellian Odyssey: An Entomological Journey to the Island of Corfu", Antenna, 36 (4), 2012, pp. 224–233.}} In 1936, following instructions from the Greek government, he started to work on his scientific magnum opus, a treatise on the freshwater biology of Corfu, which would be published in 1948. During his research, Stephanides discovered three microscopic water organisms, Cytherois stephanidesi, Thermocyclops stephanidesi and Schizopera stephanidesi.

In the summer of 1935, Stephanides made the acquaintance of the Durrell family, who had recently moved to Corfu.Joanna Hodgkin, Amateurs in Eden, Virago Press, 2012, pp. 164–165. He quickly developed a close friendship with two of the Durrell brothers, Lawrence and Gerald, who would remain his lifelong friends. As Gerald Durrell would later recall, Stephanides produced an enormous effect upon him, "a budding naturalist of ten" at that time, helping him develop his exploration skills. "Not many young naturalists have the privilege of having their footsteps guided by a sort of omnipotent, benign and humorous Greek god," wrote Durrell.Theodore Stephanides, Island Trails, Introduction by Gerald Durrell, pp. ix–xi.

The two Durrell brothers would feature Stephanides in their memoirs of the time they spent in Corfu: Gerald in his Corfu trilogy (which includes the bestseller My Family and Other Animals, first published in 1956),{{Cite book|last=Durrell|first=Gerald|title=The Corfu Trilogy|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/559/55931/the-corfu-trilogy/9780141028415.html|access-date=2020-12-17|publisher=www.penguin.co.uk|date=3 August 2006 |language=en}}Gerald Durrell, The Corfu Trilogy, London: Penguin Books, 2006. and Lawrence in Prospero's Cell (first edition: 1945).{{Cite web|title=Prospero's Cell|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571201655-prosperos-cell-faber-library-4.html|access-date=2020-12-17|website=Public Store View|language=en}}Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell, London: Faber and Faber, 2000. Stephanides, too, would write memoirs on that period, which consist mostly of reminiscences about Lawrence Durrell and his then-wife, Nancy. Fragments from them were published by the Deus Loci journal in the 1970s and 1980s, while the full version appeared in 2011 under the title Corfu Memoirs in the collection of Stephanides' works Autumn Gleanings.

During 1938 and 1939, Stephanides participated in the anti-malaria campaign in Salonica and Cyprus, organized by the Rockefeller Foundation. Earlier, in 1933, Stephanides drew up a report on anti-malaria measures to be performed in Corfu, based on directives from the Corfiot health authorities.

As Stephanides came back to Corfu in 1939, for a brief period, he made an acquaintance with Henry Miller, who later remembered: "Theodore is the most learned man I have ever met, and a saint to boot."Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1942), p. 15.

At the outbreak of World War II, Stephanides had to leave Corfu again and would only return there on rare occasions. Nevertheless, he would keep fond memories of the island and the influence it produced on him.

During World War II, being a British citizen, Stephanides served as a medical officer (lieutenant, and later major) in the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army in continental Greece, Crete, the Sahara and Sicily.Michael Haag, The Durrells of Corfu, Profile Books, 2017, p. 171, {{ISBN|978-1781257883}}. In May 1941, Stephanides was in Crete with the Allied forces during the German invasion. As the Allies were retreating across the island to be evacuated by sea, Stephanides walked in boots several sizes too large, which made him limp for some time after that.Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography, Faber & Faber, 1998, pp. 234–235. During the last stage of their long and exhausting march, he and another medical officer took charge of a group of about one hundred walking wounded, and they had to walk in open under the protection of the Red Cross flag, without any weapons or even steel helmets.The Campaign in Greece and Crete, War Office, 1942, p. 63. Eventually, they succeeded in reaching the embarkation beach and were evacuated by H.M.A.S. Perth to Alexandria.Antony Beevor, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, Penguin Books, 2014, pp. 216, 231, {{ISBN|978-0143126423}}.

In 1946, Stephanides published Climax in Crete, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Crete. Lawrence Durrell wrote a foreword to it, where he remarked: "For clearness, accuracy, and unselfconsciousness [this account] is quite fit to rank beside the compilations of any modern Purchas... It evokes the atmosphere of Greece and Crete during the German attack with a fidelity I have not seen elsewhere equalled; and to those who were there it will no doubt come as a refreshment after the scrappy sensational prose works of the professional journalists."Theodore Stephanides, Climax in Crete, Foreword by Lawrence Durrell, pp. 5–6. Lawrence's brother, Gerald Durrell, mentioned that Climax in Crete was "one of the best war books written". Alan G. Thomas also praised it, saying that it was "one of the best individual accounts of a campaign written from the human point of view".Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place: Essays and Letters on Travel, edited by Alan G. Thomas, New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1969, p. 57. Climax in Crete is quoted extensively by English military historian Antony Beevor in his book Crete: The Battle and the Resistance.Antony Beevor, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, Penguin Books, 2014.

Stephanides' parents were killed in Corfu during the 1943 German bombing of the island, while his wife Mary and daughter Alexia had moved to England in 1939 and stayed safe until the end of the war, living with the Durrells in Bournemouth for some time.

After his evacuation from Crete, Stephanides served in the Western Desert for two years, and then, in the summer of 1943, he took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily. Stephanides' experiences in the Western Desert are described in his two memoirs entitled Western Desert Scramble and Western Desert and Beyond, which are kept, along with Macedonian Medley; 1917–1918, in the Imperial War Museum in London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030013721|title=Private Papers of Dr T Stephanides|website=Imperial War Museums}} Neither of these three memoirs have seen print yet, although plans exist to publish Macedonian Medley; 1917–1918.

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Shortly after the end of World War II, Stephanides retired from the British Army and reunited with his family in London. In 1947, he and Mary divorced after 17 years of living together.Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (1998), pp. 331, 353–354.

In 1945–1961, Stephanides worked as an Assistant Radiologist at St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth district of London.

The publication of Climax in Crete in 1946 was followed by two scientific works: The Microscope and the Practical Principles of Observation (1947), a detailed guide to microscope operation and use, and the seminal A Survey of the Freshwater Biology of Corfu and of Certain Other Regions of Greece (1948). In 2012, Peter G. Sutton, a British biologist and science teacher, would highly praise A Survey, saying, among other things, that it "laid the foundation for future naturalists to study the aquatic fauna of Corfu". Sutton was "astonished by the fact that so many pathways of knowledge... must all proceed through [Stephanides'] original work on the freshwater biology of the island, or risk error". He also mentioned that while Stephanides' books, scientific collections and most of his notes were destroyed during World War II in air attacks on Corfu town, A Survey was saved by good fortune.

In July 1967, Stephanides came to Corfu, helping Gerald Durrell and Christopher Parsons complete the BBC travel documentary The Garden of the Gods.Douglas Botting, Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography, HarperCollins, 1999, pp. 337–338. Both Stephanides and Durrell appeared in the film.

Owing to his meticulousness, excellent knowledge of Corfu and Greece, and strong command of both the English and Greek languages, Stephanides was asked by the Durrell brothers to proofread a number of their books, such as Gerald's My Family and Other AnimalsDouglas Botting, Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography (1999), p. 229. or Lawrence's Prospero's Cell,Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (1998), pp. 304, 318. Pope JoanIan MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (1998), pp. 353–354. and The Greek Islands.Lawrence Durrell, The Greek Islands, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, p. xi, {{ISBN|978-0571214266}}.

After he published two collections of his own poems entitled The Golden Face (1965) and The Cities of the Mind (1969), Stephanides was highly praised as a poet. In 1973, he published a third collection of his poems, Worlds in a Crucible. A fourth collection of Stephanides' poems, Autumn Gleanings, written apparently in the 1970s, would be published posthumously in 2011.

In addition, Stephanides continued to translate the poetry of Kostis Palamas in collaboration with George Katsimbalis. As mentioned by Katsimbalis, his own contribution was not really necessary, since Stephanides understood Greek well enough. Stephanides would also work single-handedly, translating, among other things, the national Greek poem Erotocritos (published posthumously in 1984 and dedicated to Lawrence and Gerald Durrell) and dozens of short poems by Sappho and other Ancient Greek authors (year of publication: 2015).Anthony Hirst (ed.), Sweet-Voiced Sappho: Some of the Extant Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Other Ancient Greek Poems (translated by Theodore Stephanides), Colenso Books, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0992863234}}. Only about half of his translations have been published so far.

Marios-Byron Raizis, a Greek-American Byronist and Romanticist, greatly praised Stephanides' talent as a poet and translator, stating: "Had Theodore Stephanides been less Greek at heart, and had he anglicised his father's surname as Stephenson or Stevens, I believe that his fame as an English poet and translator would have been part of the English literary culture we all love, study, and celebrate today."

In 1973, Stephanides published Island Trails, a half-fictional account of Corfu and other Ionian Islands, basically a collection of Greek folklore collected by him over the years. It was prefaced by Gerald Durrell.

On 15 February 1983, Stephanides appeared as a "very special surprise guest" in the UK TV programme This is Your Life (aired on 23 February 1983){{Cite web|last=TV.com|title=This is Your Life (UK): Gerald Durrell|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/this-is-your-life-uk/gerald-durrell-723310/|access-date=2020-10-27|website=TV.com}} with Gerald Durrell as the "subject".{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VntKyQMdW0|title=This Is Your Life with Gerald Durrell on YouTube|website=www.youtube.com}} This proved to be the last time Stephanides and Durrell saw each other.Douglas Botting, Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography (1999), pp. 516–517.

Stephanides died peacefully in his sleep on 13 April 1983 in the Kilburn district of London.Douglas Botting, Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography (1999), p. 520.{{Cite web|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/29693475|title=Theodore Stephanides on VIAF}}

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Stephanides has four biological species named after him: Cytherois stephanidesi,{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cytherois stephanidesi Klie, 1938|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=128298|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.marinespecies.org}} Thermocyclops stephanidesi,{{Cite web|title=The World of Copepods - Thermocyclops stephanidesi Kiefer, 1938|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=360710|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.marinespecies.org}} Schizopera stephanidesi{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Schizopera stephanidesi Pesta, 1938|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=355480&from=rss|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.marinespecies.org}} and Arctodiaptomus stephanidesi,{{Cite web|title=Arctodiaptomus (Arctodiaptomus) stephanidesi (Pesta, 1935) | Fauna Europaea|url=https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/8efb7b17-3f3f-4a96-8f59-b47d792435d0/|website=fauna-eu.org}} which are microscopic freshwater crustaceans discovered by various researchers in the 1930s.

Félix Chemla Lamèch, a French meteorologist and selenographer, proposed naming the lunar crater Römer A after Stephanides, but this proposal was not accepted by the IAU.{{Cite book|last=Whitaker|first=Ewen A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aV1i27jDYL8C&pg=PA228|title=Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature|date=2003-12-11|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54414-6|language=en}}

Lawrence Durrell dedicated The Greek Islands (1978) and Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts and Relatives (1969) and The Amateur Naturalist (1982) to Stephanides during his lifetime, the latter reading:

This book is for Theo (Dr Theodore Stephanides), my mentor and friend, without whose guidance I would have achieved nothing.Gerald Durrell, The Amateur Naturalist, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982.

On 25 May 2011, a plaque in honor of Stephanides was unveiled in Corfu town on the building where he had his laboratory and consulting rooms in the 1930s (22 Mantzarou Street).[https://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/attachments/20110522/6c5da2cb/attachment.pdf Invitation to the launch of Autumn Gleaninigs.] The text is in Greek and English, the English text reading:

Theodore Stephanides, 1896–1983, doctor, scientist, writer, mentor of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, practised here.{{Cite web|url=https://corfublues.blogspot.com/2012/06/theodore-stephanides-corfu-plaque.html|title=Corfu Blues and Global Views: Dr. Theodore Stephanides, Corfu Plaque|date=20 June 2012}}

• Poems (original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation to English, co-author George Katsimbalis (Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1925)
• Modern Greek Poems (selection and translation from Greek into English, co-author George Katsimbalis) (1926)
• Climax in Crete (an account of the Battle of Crete) (Faber and Faber, 1946)
• [https://archive.org/details/MicroscopePrinciples The Microscope and the Practical Principles of Observation] (Faber and Faber, 1947)
• A Survey of the Freshwater Biology of Corfu and of Certain Other Regions of Greece, Practika of the Hellenic Hydrobiological Institute, No. 2 (2), pp. 11–263 (1948)
• "The influence of the antimosquito fish, Gambusia affinis, on the natural fauna of a Corfu lakelet" (technical article), Practika of the Hellenic Hydrobiological Institute, No. 9, pp. 3–6 (1964)
• The Golden Face (collection of poems) (Fortune Press, London, 1965)
• Cities of the Mind (collection of poems) (Fortune Press, London, 1969)
• Three Poems (original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation into English, co-author George Katsimbalis) (self-published, 1969)
• Worlds in a Crucible (collection of poems) (Mitre Press, 1973)
• Island Trails (semi-fictional account of Corfu and other Ionian Islands) (London: Macdonald, 1973)
• The Twelve Words of the Gipsy (original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation into English, co-author George Katsimbalis) (Oasis Books, London, 1974)
• A Hundred Voices (original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation to English, co-author George Katsimbalis) (self-published, 1976)
• Karaghiozis and the Enchanted Tree: A Modern Greek Shadow-Play Comedy (Greek Gazette, 1979)
• The King's Flute (original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation to English, co-author George Katsimbalis) (Kostis Palamas Institute, 1982)
• Erotocritos (original work by Vitsentzos Kornaros, translated from Greek to English) (Papazissis, 1984)
• Kostis Palamas: A Portrait and an Appreciation. Including Iambs and Anapaests and Ascraeus (partly original work by Kostis Palamas in Greek, translation into English, co-authors Theophanis G. Stavrou, Constantine A. Trypanis, George Katsimbalis) (Nostos Books, 1985)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=QY54twAACAAJ&dq Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems] (original texts apparently written in the 1970s; edited by Richard Pine, Lindsay Parker, James Gifford and Anthony Hirst) (Durrell School of Corfu & International Lawrence Durrell Society, 2011)
• Sweet-Voiced Sappho: Some of the Extant Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Other Ancient Greek Poems (translated by Theodore Stephanides, edited by Anthony Hirst) (Colenso Books, London, 2015)
• To Chryso Prosopeio – The Golden Face (Colenso Books, London, 2019)
• Karaghiozis: Three Modern Greek Shadow-Play Comedies (translated by Theodore Stephanides) (Colenso Books, London, 2020)

• In the BBC 10-episode TV series My Family and Other Animals (1987), Stephanides is played by Christopher Godwin.
• In the BBC 90-minute film My Family and Other Animals (2005), Stephanides is played by Chris Langham.{{Cite web|title=BBC - Press Office - The Thick Of It Chris Langham biography|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/12_december/08/thick_langham.shtml|access-date=2020-10-27|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}
• In the ITV (Television Network) drama series The Durrells (2016–2019), Stephanides is played by Yorgos Karamihos.{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-12-22/meet-the-cast-of-the-durrells-series-one/ | title=Meet the cast of The Durrells series one | work=Radio Times | first=Yamini | last=Chinnuswamy | date=22 December 2017 | access-date=26 October 2020 }}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1gCBfADKmE The Garden of the Gods] (1967), BBC documentary featuring Gerald Durrell and Theodore Stephanides.
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VntKyQMdW0 This Is Your Life (23 February 1983)], program featuring Gerald Durrell and Theodore Stephanides.
• [https://catherinebrown.org/corfus-of-the-mind/ Catherine Brown, "Corfus of the Mind"], reflections on Theodore Stephanides and Alexia Stephanides-Mercouri with rare pictures.
• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/father-always-hoped-gerry-would-marry-gerard-durrells-childhood Alexia Stephanides-Mercouri: "My father always hoped that Gerry and I would marry"], interview to The Telegraph, 15 April 2017.
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017001302/http://www.shoarns.com/TheodoreStephanides.html |date=17 October 2014 |title=Gerald Durrell Tribute Website page about Theodore Stephanides }}.
• (in Greek) [http://www.hjradiology.org/index.php/HJR/article/download/86/29 Christos S. Mpaltas, Alexia Pr. Balaníka, "Theodore Stephanides: His first medical steps (1928-1938) as a radiologist in Corfu"], Hellenic Journal of Radiology, vol. 45, No. 4 (2014).

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