Οι ελεύθεροι πολιορκημένοι

by Dionysios Solomos, Διονύσιος Σολωμός

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1859

About the author

Dionysios Solomos (Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 8 April 1798 - 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν), of which the first two stanzas on music by Nikolaos Mantzaros became the Greek national anthem in 1865.

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. Other notable poems include Τhe Cretan (Ὁ Κρητικός), The Free Besieged (Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι) and others.

A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.

Reviews

[Νικολέττα · Rating 5 out of 5]

Το κορυφαίο πόνημα του ποιητή, δεν έγινε τυχαία πασίγνωστο.

[Renate Blum]

A poem, a hymn to the Greek struggle back in the 1800s and a full of pride psychogram of the Greek revolutionary era.