Hymn to Liberty
Culture
Dionysios Solomos: The Greek Poet of Liberty
Dionysios Solomos, born on the island of Zakynthos in 1798, is rightly regarded as the National Poet of Greece for writing "Imnos eis tin Eleftherían," ("Hymn to Liberty"), the first two stanzas of which became the national anthem of...
Greece
The Greek National Anthem and Its Meaning
The Greek National Anthem is one of the most recognizable and longest of all, written by the country's "National Poet" Dionysios Solomos
Culture
Academy of Athens Library Presents Its Treasures
A book stabbed by Emmanuel Rhoides in a fit of anger, letters of Eleftherios Venizelos and Dionysios Solomos, the first edition of the “Hymn to Liberty” and a notice of the Greek Revolution handwritten by Alexander Ypsilantis: these are...