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Greek Poet Odysseas Elytis Honored With New Museum in Athens
The opening of a new museum in Athens to preserve and display the work of Greek Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseas Elytis was announced on Thursday.
Elytis is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and a major exponent of romantic...
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Dinos Christianopoulos, ‘The Poet of Thessaloniki’ Was Rebetiko Scholar
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The poet of Thessaloniki and rebetiko scholar Dinos Christianopoulos died in August of 2020, but he left behind him a rich and diverse poetic legacy that will never be forgotten in Greece.
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1931—the beautiful...
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Kostas Karyotakis, the Brilliantly Evocative Modern Greek Poet
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Kostas Y. Karyotakis, who was born in Tripolis in 1896 and died in Preveza in 1928, is one of the finest modern Greek poets of the 1920s. His poetry has been translated into over thirty languages, and he is...