Ioannis Kakridis (1901-1992) was a Greek

Greece

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 classical scholar.

He was born in Athens

Athens

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 in 1901 and received his PhD at the University of Athens. He went on to become a professor at the universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Tübingen, Stockholm

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

, Lund

Lund University

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 and Uppsala

Uppsala University

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. Kakridis was a Homer scholar and one of most important classicists of twentieth century Greece. He was also an early and staunch advocate of the adoption of the monotonic system

Greek diacritics

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 in the Greek language. In 1941, he was denounced by the faculty of the University of Athens for republishing a lecture in the monotonic system, which led to the so-called "Trial of Accents" and his suspension and later dismissal from the university.

The list of his written work is quite extensive. The most important works are a translation into the modern Greek language of the works of Homer

Homer

In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

, together with Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...

and a five-volume collection of Greek mythology.