Vasia K. – E1 Class Subject: Greek poets Ralleia Experimental Primary Schools 2017-18
Who is Solomos?
Dionysios Solomos was born in Zakynthos 8 April of 1798 and died in 9 February of 1857 in Kerkyra. Solomos studied in Pavia’s university and he was poet and writer.
Dionysios Solomos
His parents were Nikolaos Solomos and Angeliki Nikli.
Dionysios Solomos
He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty, of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek national anthem in 1865.
Dionysios Solomos
He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece—not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature.
Poems
The
‘Hymn to Liberty’ it’s one of his most popular poems ‘The
Free Besieged’ and
‘The
Cretan’.
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