List of Greek artists - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of Greek artists from the antiquity to today.
Artists have been categorised according to their main artistic profession and according to the major historical period they lived in:
The Ancient (until the foundation of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

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), the Byzantine (until the fall of Constantinople

Constantinople

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in 1453) and the Modern period (1453-today).

Painters

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Agatharchus

Agatharchus

Agatharchus or Agatharch was a self-taught painter from Samos who lived in the 5th century BC. He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scene-painting, and to have painted a scene for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited...

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Antiphilus

Antiphilus

Antiphilus was an ancient Greek painter from Naucratis, Egypt, in the age of Alexander the Great. He worked for Philip II of Macedon and Ptolemy I of Egypt. Thus he was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style...

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Apelles

Apelles

Apelles of Kos was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists...

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Apollodorus (painter)

Apollodorus (painter)

Apollodorus Skiagraphos was an influential Ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produce shadow, that affected the works not only of his contemporaries but also of later...

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Aristides of Thebes

Aristides of Thebes

Aristides of Thebes was an ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC. He is said to have excelled in expression. For example, a picture of his representing a dying mother's fear lest her infant should suck death from her breast was much celebrated. He also painted one of Alexander the Great's...

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Cimon of Cleonae

Cimon of Cleonae

Cimon of Cleonae was an early painter of ancient Greece. He was said to have introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures, according to Pliny, "out of the straight", and he developed ways of representing faces looking back, up, or down; he also made the joints of the body clear,...

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Echion (painter)

Echion (Painter)

Echion , also known as Aetion, was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana. This painting excited such admiration when exhibited at the Olympic Games, that Proxenidas, one of the judges, gave...

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Euphranor

Euphranor

Euphranor of Corinth was the only Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter.Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including a cavalry battle, a Theseus, and the feigned madness of Odysseus among the paintings; and Paris, Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis, and...

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Eupompus

Eupompus

Eupompus was the founder of the great school of painting which flourished in the 4th century BC at Sicyon in Ancient Greece. He was eclipsed by his successors, and is chiefly remembered for the advice which he is said to have given to Lysippus to follow nature rather than any master. His work is...

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Melanthius

Melanthius

Melanthius was a notable ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC. He belonged to the school of Sicyon, which was noted for fine drawing.-References:...

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Panaenus

Panaenus

Panaenus, brother of Pheidias, was an ancient Greek painter who worked in conjunction with Polygnotus and Micon at Athens. The painting of the Battle of Marathon in the Stoa poikile is ascribed to Panaenus, and also to Micon and Polygnotus who may have assisted him. He also painted the marble sides...

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Parrhasius,
Pausias

Pausias

Pausias was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century, of the school of Sicyon.-Biography:Pausias introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. His great merit appears to have lain in the better rendering of foreshortening...

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Polyeidos (poet)

Polyeidos (poet)

Polyeidos was an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet who was also skillful as a painter; he seems to have been esteemed almost as highly as Timotheus, whom one of his pupils, Philotas, once conquered in competition. It seems from a passage of Plutarch Polyeidos (Greek: ) (ca. 400 BCE) was an ancient...

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Polygnotus

Polygnotus

Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son and pupil of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship....

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Protogenes

Protogenes

Protogenes was an ancient Greek painter, a contemporary rival of Apelles. As with the other famous ancient Greek painters, none of his work has survived, and it is known only from literary references and descriptions....

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Theon of Samos

Theon of Samos

Theon of Samos was an ancient Greek painter during the era of Alexander the Great, is mentioned by Quintilian as a good artist of the second rank. If we may trust the somewhat flimsy stories told about him, his forte consisted in a lifelike, or perhaps, as Brunn puts it, a theatrical...

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Timarete

Timarete

Timarete , was an ancient Greek painter. She is the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens. According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art." At the time of Archelaus I of Macedon she was best known for a panel painting of the goddess of...

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Timomachus

Timomachus

Timomachus was an ancient Greek painter of the 1st century BC. He was noted especially for two pictures, one of which represented Ajax during his madness, the other Medea meditating the slaying of her children. Both of these works were remarkable for their power of expression, especially in the...

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Potters

Andokides

Andokides was a famous potter of Ancient Greece. The painter of his pots was an anonymous artist, the Andokides painter, who is recognized as the creater of the red-figure style, beginning around 530 BC. His work is compared with Exekias, who was said to have created the most detailed and best...

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Euphronios

Euphronios

Euphronios was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter, active in Athens in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. As part of the so-called "Pioneer Group,"...

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Euthymides

Euthymides

Euthymides was an ancient Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as "The Pioneers" for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery...

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Exekias

Exekias

Exekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. Most of his vases, however, were exported to other regions of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, while some of his other works remained in Athens. Exekias worked mainly with a...

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Kachrylion

Kachrylion

Kachrylion was a potter of Greek red-figure pottery at the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century. At his pottery had worked some of the most important attic-Greek vase painters of these timse, so Euphronios and Oltos. He signed 29 kylixes and one plate.-Literature:*John Beazley:...

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Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes was a potter of Greek black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 545-510 B.C. He is thought to have been associated with the work of the painters Oltos, Lydos, Epiktetos and the Nikosthenes-Painter....

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Phintias (painter)

Phintias (painter)

Phintias was an ancient Greek vase painter; along with Euphronios and Euthymides, he was one of the most important representatives of the Pioneer Group of Athenian red-figure vase painters. Ten works from the period between 525 and 510 BC bearing his signature survive: seven vase paintings and...

Sculptors

Agasias

Agasias, son of Dositheus

Agasias , son of Dositheus, was an ancient Greek sculptor of Ephesus. One of the productions of his chisel, the statue known by the name of the Borghese Gladiator, is still preserved in the gallery of the Louvre. This statue was discovered among the ruins of a palace of the Roman emperors on the...

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Ageladas

Ageladas

Ageladas or Hagelaidas, was a celebrated Argive sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century BC....

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Agesander of Rhodes

Agesander of Rhodes

Agesander was a sculptor from the island of Rhodes. His name occurs in no author except Pliny, and until very recently we have known of only one work which he executed, albeit one very highly renowned work...

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Alcamenes

Alcamenes

Alcamenes was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite "of the Gardens" were conspicuous.Pausanias says Alcamenes was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and...

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Alexandros of Antioch

Alexandros of Antioch

Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown artist of the Hellenistic age who is best known today for the Venus de Milo at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France...

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Antenor

Antenor

Antenor was an Athenian sculptor, of the latter part of the 6th century BC. He was named after the mythological figure also called Antenor. He was the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, set up by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias. These statues...

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Apollonius of Tralles

Apollonius of Tralles

Apollonius of Tralles was a Greek sculptor who flourished in the 2nd century BCE. With his brother Tauriscus, he executed the marble group known as the Farnese Bull, representing Zethus and Amphion tying the revengeful Dirce to the tail of a wild bull....

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Archermus

Archermus

Archermus was a sculptor of Chios working in the middle of the 6th century BC. His father, Micciades, and his sons, Bupalus and Athenis, were sculptors of marble....

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Bathycles of Magnesia

Bathycles of Magnesia

Bathycles of Magnesia was an Ionian sculptor of Magnesia on the Maeander. He was commissioned by the Spartans to make a marble throne for the statue of Apollo at Amyclae, about 550 BC. Pausanias gives us a detailed description of this monument, which is of the greatest value to us, showing the...

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Boethus

Boethus

Boethus was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age. His life dates cannot be accurately fixed, but he probably flourished in the 2nd century BCE. One source gives his birth place as Chalcedon....

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Bryaxis

Bryaxis

Bryaxis was an ancient Greek sculptor. He created the sculptures on the north side of the mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus which was commissioned by the queen Artemisia II of Caria in memory of her brother and husband, Mausolus...

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Bupalus

Bupalus

Bupalus and Athenis , were sons of Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured...

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Butades

Butades

Butades of Sicyon, sometimes mistakenly called Dibutades, was the first ancient Greek modeller in clay. The period at which he flourished is unknown, but has been put at about 600 BC...

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Calamis (5th century BC),
Calamis (4th century BC)

Calamis (4th century BC)

Calamis was a Greek sculptor. One of his pupils was Praxias....

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Canachus

Canachus

Canachus was a sculptor of Sicyon in Corinthia, of the latter part of the 6th century BCE. He was especially noted as the author of two great statues of Apollo, one in bronze made for the temple at Miletus, and one in cedar wood made for Thebes. The coins of Miletus furnish us with copies of the...

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Cephisodotus the Elder

Cephisodotus the Elder

Cephisodotus or Kephisodotos was a Greek sculptor, perhaps the father or an uncle of Praxiteles, one of whose sculptor sons was Cephisodotus the Younger....

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Cephisodotus the Younger

Cephisodotus the Younger

Cephisodotus, son of Praxiteles, brother of Timarchos and grandson of Cephisodotus the Elder. None of his work remains in originals, but in later, mostly roman copies. He was in a team with his brother a prolific sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century BC, especially noted for portraits, of...

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Chares of Lindos

Chares of Lindos

Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippus....

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Damophon

Damophon

Damophon was an ancient Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic period from Messene, who executed many statues for the people of Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium and other cities of Peloponnesus. His statues were acroliths...

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Demetrius of Alopece

Demetrius of Alopece

Demetrius of Alopece , was a Greek sculptor of the early part of the 4th century BC, who is said by ancient critics to have been notable for the life-like realism of his statues....

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Dipoenus and Scyllis

Dipoenus and Scyllis

Dipoenus and Scyllis were early ancient Greek sculptors from Crete who worked together and were said to have been pupils of Daedalus. Pliny assigns to them the date 580 BC, and says that they worked at Sicyon, which city from their time onwards became one of the great schools of sculpture. They...

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Endoeus

Endoeus

Endoeus or Endoios was an ancient Greek sculptor who worked at Athens in the middle of the 6th century BC. We are told that he made an image of Athena dedicated by Callias the contemporary of Pisistratus at Athens about 564 BC. An inscription bearing his name has been found at Athens, written in...

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Epigonus

Epigonus

Epigonus of Pergamum was the chief among the court sculptors to the Attalid dynasty at Pergamum in the late third century BCE. Pliny the Elder, who offers the only surviving list of the sculptors of this influential Pergamene school, attributes to him works among the sculptures on the victory...

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Euphranor

Euphranor

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Eutychides

Eutychides

Eutychides of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of Tyche, which he made for the city of Antioch, then newly founded. The goddess, who embodied the idea of the city, was seated on a rock, crowned...

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Hegias of Athens

Hegias of Athens

Hegias or Hegesias of Athens was a famous sculptor of Athens, a member of the Late Archaic school of the generation before Pheidias. No surviving work can be securely identified as his, though Pliny mentions a Pyrrhus Supported by Pallas Athena....

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Kresilas

Kresilas

Kresilas was a Greek sculptor from Kydonia. He lived in the 5th century BC. He worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war, as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron.-Pericles statue:...

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Kritios

Kritios

Kritios was an Athenian sculptor, probably a pupil of Antenor, working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the Severe style of Early Classicism in Attica. He was the teacher of Myron...

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Leochares

Leochares

Leochares was a Greek sculptor from Athens, who lived in the 4th century BC.-Works:Leochares worked at the construction of the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of his original...

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Lycius (sculptor)

Lycius (sculptor)

Lycius was an ancient Greek sculptor active in the middle decades of the 5th century BCE. Ancient sources identify him as son of Myron of Eleutherae. He sculpted bronze horses and humans for a cavalry monument dedicated on the. He also did architecture on the Athenian Acropolis ....

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Lysippos

Lysippos

Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty of...

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Lysistratus

Lysistratus

Lysistratus was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippus of Sicyon. We are told by Pliny the Elder that he followed a strongly realistic line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster....

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Menecrates (sculptor)

Menecrates (sculptor)

Menecrates was an ancient Greek sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century BC. Little is known about him except that, according to Pliny the Elder, he was the teacher of Apollonius of Tralles and Tauriscus, the sculptors of the Farnese Bull....

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Micon

Micon

Micon the Younger of Athens was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile , at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles. He also...

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Myron

Myron

Myron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....

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Onatas

Onatas

Onatas was an ancient Greek sculptor of the time of the Persian Wars and a member of the flourishing school of Aegina. Many of his works are mentioned by Pausanias; they included a Hermes carrying the ram, and a strange image of the Black Demeter made for the people of Phigalia; also some elaborate...

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Paeonius

Paeonius

Paeonius of Mende in Macedonia was a Greek sculptor of the late 5th century BC. The only work that can be definitely attributed to him is the statue of Nike discovered at Olympia...

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Pasiteles

Pasiteles

Pasiteles was a Neo-Attic school sculptor from Ancient Rome at the time of Julius Caesar. Pasiteles is said by Pliny to have been a native of Magna Graecia, and to have been granted Roman citizenship...

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Phidias

Phidias

Phidias or the great Pheidias , was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...

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Polycles (370 BCE),
Polycles (155 BC)

Polycles (155 BC)

Polycles was an ancient Greek sculptor, flourished about the 156th Olympiad , mentioned in Pliny's Natural History. In Pliny's list, the name of this Polycles is followed by Athenaeus, either to be taken as the name of another sculptor or as Polycles's birthplace. A Juno by him stood in the Portico...

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Polykleitos

Polykleitos

Polykleitos ; called the Elder, was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early 4th century BCE...

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Polykleitos the Younger

Polykleitos the Younger

Polykleitos the Younger was an ancient Greek sculptor of athletes. His greatest achievements, however, were as an architect. A renowned sculptor, Polykleitos the Younger was architect of the Theatre and Tholos at Epidaurus. Started around 360 BC, the Tholos exhibited elaborate detailing,...

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Praxias and Androsthenes

Praxias and Androsthenes

Praxias and Androsthenes , Greek sculptors, who are said by Pausanias to have executed the pediments of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Both were Athenians, Praxias a pupil of Calamis...

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Praxiteles

Praxiteles

Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue...

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Pythagoras of Rhegium,
Rhoecus

Rhoecus

Rhoecus was a Samian sculptor of the 6th century BCE. He and his son Theodorus were especially noted for their work in bronze. Herodotus says that Rhoecus built the temple of Hera at Samos, which was destroyed by fire c. 530 BCE. In the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was a marble figure of night by...

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Scopas

Scopas

Scopas or Skopas was an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect, born on the island of Paros. Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and he sculpted parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, especially the reliefs. He led the building of the new temple of Athena Alea at Tegea...

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Silanion

Silanion

Silanion was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. His floruit is given by Pliny as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328-325 BC; the tradition recorded by Pliny was that Silanion had no famous teacher...

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Smilis

Smilis

Smilis was a legendary ancient Greek sculptor, the contemporary of Daedalus, whose name was associated with the archaic cult figure of Hera at Samos. Smilis was born in the island of Aegina.-External links:* "The Sculptors: The Archaic Period"...

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Sosicles (sculptor)

Sosicles (Sculptor)

Sosicles was a Roman sculptor in the mid 2nd century AD. He worked as copyist of ancient Greek masterpieces. He is known from his signature shown on a marble plinth from Tusculum and the column of a marble statue of a wounded Amazon...

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Strongylion

Strongylion

Strongylion, a Greek sculptor, the author of a bronze figure of a horse set up on the Acropolis of Athens late in the 5th century BC, which represented the wooden horse of Troy with the Greek heroes inside it and looking forth...

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Theodorus of Samos

Theodorus of Samos

Theodorus of Samos was a 6th century BC ancient Greek sculptor and architect from the Greek island of Samos. Along with Rhoecus, he was often credited with the invention of ore smelting and, according to Pausanias, the craft of casting. He is also credited with inventing a water level, a...

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Thrasymedes

Thrasymedes

This page is on the sculptor Thrasymedes of Paros. For the mythological Greek captain of the Trojan Wars, see Thrasymedes .Thrasymedes of Paros was an ancient Greek sculptor...

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Timotheos

Timotheos

Timotheus was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Scopas of Paros, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the construction of the grave of Mausolus at Halicarnassus between 353 and 350 BC. He was apparently the leading sculptor at the...

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Xenokrates of Sicyon

Xenokrates of Sicyon

Xenokrates of Sicyon was an ancient Greek sculptor and writer, and one of the world's first art historians. Three signed statue bases are all that survive of his work. Pliny the Elder described him as a pupil of either Euthykrates or Teisikrates, and states that he surpassed both in his career,...

Architects

Apollodorus of Damascus

Apollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD, from Damascus, Roman Syria. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia. He also designed the Forum...

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Callimachus (sculptor)

Callimachus (sculptor)

Callimachus was an architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC in the manner established by Polyclitus. He was credited with work in both Athens and Corinth and was probably from one of the two cities...

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Chersiphron

Chersiphron

Chersiphron , an architect of Knossos in Crete, was the builder of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, on the Ionian coast. The temple had been begun about 600 BC, and was completed by other architects. Chersiphron and his son Metagenes were co-authors of its building...

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Dinocrates,
Eupalinus,
Iktinos

Iktinos

Ictinus was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon....

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Kallikrates

Kallikrates

Callicrates was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BCE. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon . An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the Temple of Nike" in the Sanctuary of Athena Nike on the Acropolis...

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Metagenes

Metagenes

Metagenes son of the Cretan architect Chersiphron, also was an architect. He was co-architect, along with his father, of the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....

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Mnesikles

Mnesikles

Mnesikles was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BCE, the age of Pericles....

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Aeulius Nicon

Aeulius Nicon

Aelius Nicon was a Greek architect and builder in 2nd century CE Pergamon. Nicon is known chiefly as the father of the ancient anatomist and philosopher, Galen....

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Philon

Philon

Philon, Athenian architect of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great Hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis and, under the administration of Lycurgus, an arsenal at Athens. Of the last we have exact knowledge from an...

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Pythis

Pythis

Pythius, also known as Pytheos or Pythis, was a Greek architect of the 4th century BCE. He built the Temple of Athena Polias cited by Vitruvius : "Pythius, the celebrated builder of the temple of Minerva at Priene"...

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Satyros

Satyros

Satyros or Satyrus was an Greek architect in the 4th century BC. Along with Pythius of Priene, he designed and oversaw the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus....

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Sostratus of Cnidus

Sostratus of Cnidus

Sostratus of Cnidus , was a Greek architect and engineer. He designed the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World , on the island of Pharos off Alexandria, Egypt.-External links:*...

Novelists

Achilles Tatius

Achilles Tatius of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or romance The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon.-Life and minor works:...

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Antonius Diogenes

Antonius Diogenes

Antonius Diogenes was the author of a Greek romance, whom scholars have placed in the 2nd century CE. His age was unknown even to Photius, who has preserved an outline of his romance. It consisted of twenty-four books, was written in the form of a dialogue about travels, and bore the title of The...

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Chariton

Chariton

Chariton of Aphrodisias was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled Callirhoe , though it is regularly referred to as Chaereas and Callirhoe...

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Heliodorus of Emesa

Heliodorus of Emesa

Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was a Greek writer generally dated to the third century AD who is known for the ancient Greek novel or romance called the Aethiopica or sometimes "Theagenes and Chariclea"....

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Iamblichus (novelist)

Iamblichus (novelist)

Iamblichus was an Ancient Syrian Greek novelist.Iamblichus was an Emesene that achieved wide prominence in the 2nd century. He describes himself on being having ‘descended from the ancient dynasts’, including the Priest Kings of the Emesani Dynasty...

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Longus

Longus

Longus, sometimes Longos , was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos during the 2nd century AD...

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Lucian

Lucian

Lucian of Samosata was a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.His ethnicity is disputed and is attributed as Assyrian according to Frye and Parpola, and Syrian according to Joseph....

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Xenophon of Ephesus

Xenophon of Ephesus

Xenophon of Ephesus was a Greek writer. His surviving work is the Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, one of the earliest novels as well as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....

Dramatists and playwrights

Achaeus of Eretria

Achaeus of Eretria was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known, some of which include Adrastus, Alcmeon, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous,...

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Achaeus of Syracuse

Achaeus of Syracuse

Achaeus of Syracuse was an ancient Greek tragedian native of Syracuse. The Suda ascribes to him 10 plays, while the Pseudo-Eudocia 14. He may be the "Achaios" who won a victory at Athens' Lenaia festival in 356 BC.-References:*]]...

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...

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Agathon

Agathon

Agathon was an Athenian tragic poet whose works, up to the present moment, have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in . He is also a prominent character in...

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Alexander Aetolus

Alexander Aetolus

For other uses, see Alexander and Alexander Alexander Aetolus was a Greek poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry...

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Alexis

Alexis

Alexis was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period, born at Thurii in Magna Graeca and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion and the tribe Leontides. It is thought he lived to the age of 106 and died on the stage while being crowned...

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Anaxandrides

Anaxandrides

For the Spartan king, see Anaxandridas IIAnaxandrides , was an Athenian Middle Comic poet. He was victorious ten times , first in 376, according to the Marmor Parium . Inscriptional evidence shows that three of his victories came at the Lenaia For the Spartan king, see Anaxandridas IIAnaxandrides...

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Antiphanes,
Aphareus (writer)

Aphareus (writer)

Aphareus was an ancient Greek tragedian and orator. He attended the school of Isocrates, along with Theodectes. He was the son of Hippias the sophist, and the adopted son of Isocrates, left behind him thirty-seven tragedies, and had been successful in winning four victories....

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Apollodorus of Carystus

Apollodorus of Carystus

Apollodorus of Carystus in Euboea, was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela , also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander. He wrote 47 comedies and obtained...

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Aristarchus of Tegea

Aristarchus of Tegea

Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea was a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides, who lived to be a centenarian, to compose seventy pieces and to win two tragic victories. Only the titles of three of his plays with a single line of the text, have come down to us, though Ennius freely borrowed from...

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...

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Carcinus (writer)

Carcinus (writer)

Carcinus was an Ancient Greek tragedian, and was a member of a family including Xenocles and his grandfather Carcinus of Agrigentum. He received a prize for only one out of his one hundred and sixty plays, many of them composed at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse...

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Chaeremon

Chaeremon

Chaeremon was an Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BCE. He was generally considered a tragic poet like Choerilus. Aristotle said his works were intended for reading, not for representation...

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Choerilus (tragic poet)

Choerilus (tragic poet)

Choerilus was an Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC.-Biography:Choerilus was said to have competed with Aeschylus, Pratinas and even Sophocles. According to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, however, the rival of Sophocles was a son of Choerilus, who bore the same name. The...

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Cleophon (poet),
Cratinus

Cratinus

Cratinus , Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy.-Life:Cratinus was victorious six times at the City Dionysia, first probably in the mid- to late 450s BCE , and three times at the Lenaia, first probably in the early 430s...

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Diphilus

Diphilus

Diphilus, of Sinope, was a poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander . Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens, but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna....

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Epicharmus of Kos

Epicharmus of Kos

Epicharmus is thought to have lived within the hundred year period between c. 540 and c. 450 BC. He was a Greek dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comic writers, having originated the Doric or Sicilian comedic form. Aristotle writes that he and Phormis invented...

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Eupolis

Eupolis

Eupolis was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the time of the Peloponnesian War.-Biography:Nothing whatsoever is known of his personal history. There are few sources on when he first appeared on the stage...

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Euripides

Euripides

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

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Hegemon of Thasos

Hegemon of Thasos

Hegemon of Thasos was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the...

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Herodas

Herodas

thumb|The first column of the Herodas papyrus, showing Mimiamb 1. 1–15.Herodas , or Herondas , was a Greek poet and the author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse, written under the Alexandrian empire in the 3rd century BC.Apart from the intrinsic merit of these pieces, they are...

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Ion of Chios

Ion of Chios

Ion of Chios was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived...

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Iophon

Iophon

Iophon was an Greek tragic poet and son of Sophocles.Iophon gained the second prize in tragic competition in 428 BC, Euripides being first, and Ion third...

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Menander

Menander

Menander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso...

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Neophron

Neophron

Neophron of Sicyon was one of the most prolific of the ancient Greek dramatists, to whom are accredited one hundred and twenty pieces, of which only a few fragments of his Medea remain. This, it is said, Euripides used in his tragedy which bears the same title, although modern scholarship is...

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Nicochares

Nicochares

Nicochares was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, son of Philonides and contemporary with Aristophanes. The titles of Nicochares' plays, as enumerated by Suidas, are, Αμυμωνη , Πελοφ , Γαλατεια , Ηρακληs χορηγυς, Κμητες, Λακωνες , Λημνιαι , Κενταυροι , Χειρογαστορες Nicochares was an Athenian...

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Pherecrates

Pherecrates

Pherecrates, was an Greek poet of Athenian Old Comedy, and a rough contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes. He was victorious at least once at the City Dionysia, first probably in the mid-440s Pherecrates, was an Greek poet of Athenian Old Comedy, and a rough contemporary of Cratinus,...

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Philemon (poet)

Philemon (poet)

Philemon ; was an Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy. He was born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse in Sicily but moved to Athens some time before 330 BC, when he is known to have been producing plays....

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Phrynichus (comic poet),
Phrynichus (tragic poet),
Plato (comic poet)

Plato (comic poet)

Plato was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus , Victories , Cleophon , and Phaon . The titles suggest that his themes were often political...

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Pratinas

Pratinas

Pratinas was one of the earliest tragic poets of Athens, he was a native of Phlius in Peloponnesus. About 500 BC he competed with Choerilus and Aeschylus, when the latter made his first appearance as a writer for the stage....

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Rhinthon

Rhinthon

Rhinthon was a Hellenistic dramatist.The son of a potter, he was probably a native of Syracuse and afterwards settled at Tarentum....

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Sophocles

Sophocles

Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...

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Sositheus

Sositheus

Sositheus , Greek tragic poet, of Alexandria Troas, a member of the Alexandrian "pleiad".He must have resided at some time in Athens, since Diogenes Laërtius tells us that he attacked the Stoic Cleanthes on the stage, and was hissed off by the audience...

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Strattis

Strattis

Strattis was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. According to the Suda, he flourished later than Callias Schoenion. He must have begun to exhibit in the 92nd Olympiad, that is, 412 BC. He was contemporary with Sannyrion and Philyllius, both of whom are attacked in the extant fragments of his...

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Theodectes

Theodectes

Theodectes was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia who lived in the period which followed the Peloponnesian War. Along with the continual decay of political and religious life, tragedy sank more and more into mere rhetorical display. The school of Isocrates produced the...

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Xenocles

Xenocles

Xenocles or Zenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian.There were two Athenian tragic poets of this name, one the grandfather of the other...

Poets

Christopher of Mytilene

Christopher of Mytilene was a Greek-language poet living in the first half of the 11th century. His works include poems on various subjects and four Christian calendars.- Biography :...

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Michael Glycas

Michael Glycas

Michael Glycas or Glykas was a Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was probably from Corfu and lived in Constantinople ....

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John Mauropous

John Mauropous

John Mauropous was a Byzantine Greek poet, hymnographer and author of letters and orations, living in the 11th century AD.-Life:...

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Vitsentzos Kornaros

Vitsentzos Kornaros

Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros or Vincenzo Cornaro was a Cretan poet, who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos. He wrote in vernacular Greek, and was a leading figure of the Cretan Renaissance....

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Michael Tarchaniota Marullus

Michael Tarchaniota Marullus

Michael Tarchaniota Marullus or Michael Marullus was a Greek Renaissance scholar, poet of Neolatin, humanist and soldier.-Life:Michael Tarchaniota Marullus was born to a family of Greek ancestry. His biography is rather obscure, he was born in either Constantinople or near the site of ancient...

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Paul the Silentiary

Paul the Silentiary

Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius , was an epigrammatist and an officer in the imperial household of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, responsible for the silence in the imperial palace....

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Manuel Philes

Manuel Philes

Manuel Philes , of Ephesus, Byzantine poet.At an early age he removed to Constantinople, where he was the pupil of Georgius Pachymeres, in whose honour he composed a memorial poem. Philes appears to have travelled extensively, and his writings contain much information concerning the imperial court...

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George Pisida

George Pisida

George Pisida was a Byzantine poet, born in Pisidia, flourished during the 7th century AD....

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Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos or Psellus was a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian...

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John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes was a Byzantine poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.Tzetzes was Georgian on his mother's side...

Writers

Nicephorus Blemmydes

Nikephoros Blemmydes was 13th-century Byzantine literary figure.He was born in 1197 in Constantinople as the second child of a physician. After the conquest of Constantinople by the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, he migrated to Asia Minor. There, he received a liberal education in Prusa,...

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Nicholas Cabasilas

Nicholas Cabasilas

Nicholas Cabasilas was a Byzantine mystic and theological writer.Cabasilas is a saint within the Orthodox Church. His feast day is June 20.-Life:...

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Cassianus Bassus

Cassianus Bassus

Cassianus Bassus, called Scholasticus was one of the geoponici — the group of writers on agricultural subjects.He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century. He compiled from earlier writers a collection of agricultural literature; the principal source was Vindonius Anatolius...

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Demetrius Chalcondylas,
Michael Choniates

Michael Choniates

Michael Choniates , Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was born at Chonae . At an early age he studied at Constantinople and was the pupil of Eustathius of Thessalonica. Around 1175 he was appointed archbishop of Athens...

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Coluthus

Coluthus

Coluthus, often Colluthus, of Lycopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid, was an epic poet writing in Greek, who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I...

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Constantine Manasses

Constantine Manasses

Constantine Manasses was a Byzantine chronicler who flourished in the 12th century during the reign of Manuel I Komnenos . He was the author of a chronicle or historical synopsis of events from the creation of the world to the end of the reign of Nikephoros Botaneiates , sponsored by Irene...

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Constantine VII

Constantine VII

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...

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Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cosmas Indicopleustes was an Alexandrian merchant and later hermit, probably of Nestorian tendencies. He was a 6th-century traveller, who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian...

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Eustathius of Thessalonica

Eustathius of Thessalonica

Archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica was a Greek bishop and scholar. He is most noted for his contemporary account of the sack of Thessalonike by the Normans in 1185, for his orations and for his commentaries on Homer, which incorporate many remarks by much earlier researchers.- Life :After being...

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Patriarch Gregory II of Constantinople

Patriarch Gregory II of Constantinople

Gregory II of Cyprus was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between 1283-1289.His name was originally George. His parents were middle class but of noble origin. He moved to Nicosia as a teenager seeking further education...

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Hesychius of Miletus

Hesychius of Miletus

Hesychius of Miletus, Greek chronicler and biographer, surnamed Illustrius, son of an advocate, flourished at Constantinople in the 6th century AD during the reign of Justinian.According to Photius he was the author of three important works:...

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Kekaumenos

Kekaumenos

Kekaumenos is the family name of the otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Graeco-Armenian origin and the grandson of the doux of Hellas...

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Leontios of Neapolis

Leontios of Neapolis

Leontios was Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus in the 7th century AD.Works: Life of St. John the Merciful, commissioned by the archbishop of Constantia Arcadius, Life of Simeon the Holy Fool, a lost "Life of Spyridon" and an apologia against Jews...

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Leontius (writer)

Leontius (writer)

Leontius , theological writer, born at Constantinople, flourished during the sixth century. He is variously styled Byzantinus, Hierosolymitanus Leontius (c. 485 – c. 543), theological writer, born at Constantinople, flourished during the sixth century. He is variously styled Byzantinus,...

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Joannes Laurentius Lydus

Joannes Laurentius Lydus

John the Lydian or John Lydus was a 6th century Byzantine administrator and writer on antiquarian subjects. His works are of interest for specific data about classical events.- Life and career :...

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Mazaris

Mazaris

Mazaris was a late Byzantine Greek writer. He is only known as the author of a satirical text, Mazaris' Journey to Hades. His identity and first name are unknown...

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Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople

Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople

Photios I , also spelled Photius or Fotios, was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox churches as St...

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Leontius Pilatus,
Rhetorius

Rhetorius

Rhetorius of Egypt was the last major classical astrologer from whom we have any excerpts. He lived in the sixth or early seventh century, in the early Byzantine era. He wrote an extensive compendium in Greek of the techniques of the Hellenistic astrologers who preceded him, and is one of our...

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Simeon Seth

Simeon Seth

Simeon Seth or Symeon Seth was an 11th-century Jewish Byzantine doctor, scholar, and grand Chamberlain under Emperor Michael VII Doukas, originally from Antioch...

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Theodore Prodromus

Theodore Prodromus

Theodore Prodromos or Prodromus , probably also the same person as the so-called Ptochoprodromos , was a Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poetry.-Biography:Very little is known about his life...

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Theodorus Hyrtacenus

Theodorus Hyrtacenus

Theodore Hyrtakenos, latinized as Theodorus Hyrtacenus , was a court official of the Byzantine Empire. He flourished in the time of the Andronikos II Palaiologos , where he was the superintendent of the public teachers of rhetoric and belles lettres. Ninety-three of his letters, a congratulatory...

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Anna Comnena,
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus,
Isaac of Nineveh

Isaac of Nineveh

Isaac of Nineveh also remembered as Isaac the Syrian and Isaac Syrus was a Seventh century bishop and theologian best remembered for his written work. He is also regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church...

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John of Damascus

John of Damascus

Saint John of Damascus was a Syrian monk and priest...

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Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos or Psellus was a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian...

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Procopius

Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History...

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Zozimus

Zozimus

Michael J. Moran , popularly known as Zozimus, was an Irish street rhymer. He was a resident of Dublin and also known as the "Blind Bard of the Liberties" and the "Last of the Gleemen".-Biography:...

Painters

Phaedon Anastasiades

Phaedon Anastasiades was a Greek Graphic Designer and Painter .-Studies:He graduated from the Athens Combined Lyceum in Applied Arts in 1987, and attended the Vakalo School of Arts and Design, with applied studies in visual communication and advertising from 1987 to 1990...

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Constantine Andreou

Constantine Andreou

Constantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades...

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Christodoulos Aronis

Christodoulos Aronis

Christodoulos Aronis was a Greek fine artist, professor and priest who lived and worked in Greece, England and Scotland and was born in Paxi.-Life:...

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Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...

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Alexandros Christofis

Alexandros Christofis

Alexandros Christofis or Alexandros Hristofis was a Greek painter.He was born in Piraeus in 1882. He attended the School of Great Arts where he excelled with the studend Nikiforos Lytras. He later went to Naples where he attended the Institute of Great Arts...

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Hermon di Giovanno,
Dionysius of Fourna

Dionysius of Fourna

Dionysius of Fourna was an Eastern Orthodox author of a manual of iconography and painting in the 18th century. He was born in Fourna, the Ottoman Empire, and went to study in Constantinople around the age of twelve before returning, as a monk, to Mt. Athos. He painted several icons in Mt...

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El Greco

El Greco

El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...

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Nikos Engonopoulos

Nikos Engonopoulos

Nikos Engonopoulos was a modern Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of the Greek Generation of the '30s as well as a major representative of the surrealistic movement in Greece...

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Costas Evangelatos

Costas Evangelatos

Costas Evangelatos is a famous greek artist and poet born in Argostoli in 1957 but he is originated by his father side from Lixouri, Kefalonia. He studied law at Athens University, painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in Manhattan...

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Demetrios Farmakopoulos

Demetrios Farmakopoulos

Demetrios Farmakopoulos, ,, also known as Mimis Farmakopoulos. An influential Greek painter whose main recurring theme is space and the future.-Introduction:...

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Alekos Fassianos

Alekos Fassianos

- Biography :Fassianos studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1956 to 1960 where he was taught from Yannis Moralis. He then went to Paris on a French State scholarship where he attended lessons on lithography along with Clairin and Caroline...

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Demetrios Galanis

Demetrios Galanis

Demetrios Galanis was an early twentieth century Greek artist and contemporary and friend of Picasso. In 1920, the year he completed his `Seated Nude', he exhibited alongside such major figures of modern art as Matisse and Braque, while from 1921 on he also exhibited alongside Juan Gris, Dufy,...

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Nicholaos Gysis

Nicholaos Gysis

Nikolaos Gyzis was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928...

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Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, iconographer, writer and academic...

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Theophilos Hatzimihail

Theophilos Hatzimihail

Theophilos Hatzimihail , known simply as Theophilos, was a major folk painter of Neo-Hellenic art...

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Georgios Jakobides

Georgios Jakobides

'Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.- Life :His first education was in Izmir, Turkey...

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Canuto Kallan,
Christos Kapralos

Christos Kapralos

Christos Kapralos was a Greek artist of the 20th century. He was born in Panaitolto in the municipality of ThestiesHe studied drawing at a school with the help of the Agrinian Papastratou Bros...

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Photios Kontoglou

Photios Kontoglou

Photis Kontoglou was a Greek writer, painter and iconographer.-Life :He was raised by his mother, Despoina Kontoglou, and his uncle Stefanos Kontoglou, who was abbot in the nearby monastery of Aghia Paraskevi. He spent his childhood among the monastery, the sea and the fishermen. In 1913, he...

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Kourouniotis

Kourouniotis

Dimitri Kourouniotis is an contemporary artist based in San Francisco specializing in abstract paintings. He settled in San Francisco after graduate work in the United Kingdom.Bold color and energetic gestures typify his artwork....

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Marios Loizides

Marios Loizides

Marios Loizides was a Greek visual artist.-Life:Loizides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. he studied painting and lithography at St. Martin's School of Art, London, between 1951-4, together with courses in stage and costume design. He later worked in London for a number of years as a graphic artist...

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Nikiphoros Lytras

Nikiphoros Lytras

Nikiphoros Lytras was a nineteenth century Greek painter. He was born in Tinos, and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860 he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held...

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Yiannis Moralis

Yiannis Moralis

Yiannis Moralis was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the 30s".-Life:...

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Magda Roussi,
Theocharis Mores

Theocharis Mores

Theocharis Mores was a Greek painter.Born in Saint Croix, he was the eldest of five children.Mores started working in the accounts office of the factory in which his father was employed...

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Dimitris Mytaras

Dimitris Mytaras

Dimitris Mytaras is a Greek artist born in Chalkis in 1934 and is considered one of the important Greek painters of the 20th century.His work is mainly inspired by the human figure, and a combination of naturalism and expressionism...

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Nicos Nicolaides

Nicos Nicolaides

Nicos Nicolaides was a Greek painter and writer.-Early life:Nicolaides born the son of poor parents in Nicosia, Cyprus on the April 3, 1884. A sister, Maria, followed him two years later. He was only six or seven when their parents died, one after another. Their maternal aunt took charge of the...

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Nikos Nikolaou

Nikos Nikolaou

Nikos Nikolaou was a major figure in Greek art during the 20th century.In 1929 Nikolaou is admitted into the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied under Konstantinos Parthenis and Umbertos Argyros....

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Périclès Pantazis

Périclès Pantazis

Périclès Pantazis was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century that gained a great reputation as an artist initially in Belgium.- Life :...

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George Papassavas

George Papassavas

George Papassavas is a painter who has traveled extensively throughout Latin America.Born in Stavroupoli, Greece, Papassavas against his father's will taught himself the techniques of the classical artist at a young age. At the age of 17, he was put into exile and forced into labor by the invading...

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Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki

Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki

Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki is a Greek painter specialising in sports-related subjects.-Life:Valyraki was born in Athens, Greece.From 1975 to 1980 she studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Professor Yiannis Moralis. In 1986 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Florence...

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Konstantinos Parthenis

Konstantinos Parthenis

Konstantinos Parthenis born in Alexandria, Egypt was a distinguished Greek painter. Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with traditional themes, like the figure of Christ, in his art.-External links:*...

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Yiannis Poulakas

Yiannis Poulakas

Yiannis Poulakas was a Greek painter and probably the first Greek theatrical scene decorator. He was born into a farming family and at a young age, he visited Constantinople, the modern-day Istanbul, where he became a painter...

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Yiannis Psychopedis

Yiannis Psychopedis

Yannis Psychopedis was born in 1945 and he is one of the main Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism, an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968...

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Litsa Spathi

Litsa Spathi

Litsa Spathi is a Greek painter, performer and Fluxus artist, currently living in Heidelberg, Germany and Breda, Netherlands. She makes collages, objectbooks, fluxus poetry and large acrylic paintings. She used to be active in mail art as well. Her paintings belong to the category fantastic realism...

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Yiannis Spyropoulos

Yiannis Spyropoulos

Yiannis Spyropoulos was a famous Greek painter of the second half of the 20th century.-Life and work:Spyropoulos was born in Pylos of Messenia. In 1930 he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts...

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Yannis Stavrou

Yannis Stavrou

Yannis Stavrou is a contemporary Greek artist, painter.Yannis Stavrou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He originally studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts before painting won him over...

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Panayiotis Tetsis

Panayiotis Tetsis

Panayiotis Tetsis is a major Greek painter. Tetsis is a genuine exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition.- Life and work :...

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Epameinondas Thomopoulos

Epameinondas Thomopoulos

Epameinondas Thomopoulos was a Greek artist who attended the academy and the first Greek impressionist....

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Yannis Tsarouchis

Yannis Tsarouchis

-Early life:Born in Piraeus, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts . He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs...

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Antonio Vassilacchi

Antonio Vassilacchi

Antonio Vassilacchi, also called L'Aliense, was a Greekpainter, who was active mostly in Venice and the Veneto.-Biography:...

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Spyros Vassiliou

Spyros Vassiliou

Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy...

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Lydia Venieri

Lydia Venieri

Lydia Venieri is a major Greek artist, and a descendant of the Greek branch of the Venier family. Born in Athens, she studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and later lived in Paris. She is currently living in New York...

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Konstantinos Volanakis

Konstantinos Volanakis

Konstantinos Volanakis or Volonakis was a Greek painter, considered one of the best of the 19th century. Born to a wealthy family, he went to Trieste, Italy, in 1856 where he took up painting. He studied in the Munich Academy. He is one of the foremost representatives of the Munich School, a Greek...

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Constantin Xenakis

Constantin Xenakis

Constantin Xenakis is a European artist based in France. His work often includes written script, in particular the Hebrew alphabet.-Life:...

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Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos

Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos

Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos was a Greek painter. Born in Cefallonia, he studied in Italy and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; he lived in France until returning to Greece in the 1890s; he died in Athens. He remained an academic artist throughout most of his career.-External links:*...

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Odysseus Yakoumakis

Odysseus Yakoumakis

Odysseus Yakoumakis is a Stuckist artist, painter and illustrator, based in Athens, Greece. He is the founder of the first Greek Stuckist group, The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship, and organiser of the first international Stuckist group show in Greece, Under the Cover of Romantic Anonymity...

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Vasilis Zenetzis

Vasilis Zenetzis

Vasilis Zenetzis is a modern Greek painter. Born in Alikarnassos, Heraklion, Crete in 1935.He painted seascapes, landscapes by a style he invented and named quadrature....

Sculptors

Joannis Avramidis

Joannis Avramidis is a Greek-Austrian sculptor. He was born in Batumi, Georgia in 1922.He studied in Batumi and later at Fritz Wotruba in Vienna.He became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1966 in Hamburg. In 1962 he represented Austria at the Venice Biennale.-References:...

Constantine Andreou

Constantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades...

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Chryssa,
Kostas Dikefalos

Kostas Dikefalos

Kostas Dikefalos on Zakinthos) is a Greek sculptor.He studied at the Fine Arts School of Athens from 1976 to 1982. Even in his first year of study he worked with several famous Greek sculptors and potters....

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Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis was born on March 23, 1936 in Piraeus, Greece. He studied in art college in Athens until 1956 and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome....

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Memos Makris

Memos Makris

Memos Makris was a prominent Greek sculptor. He spent his early childhood in Patras but his family moved to Athens in 1919. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and soon became involved in the artistic and cultural life of the 1930s. During the German Occupation Makris joined the National...

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Thodoros Papadimitriou

Thodoros Papadimitriou

Thodoros Papadimitriou also known as Thodoros is a Greek sculptor with international importance.-Biography:...

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Thodoros Papayiannis

Thodoros Papayiannis

Thodoros Papayiannis is a Greek sculptor.A number of his sculptures are displayed in various parts of Greek Cyprus and he was assigned with several other sculptors to create public artwork for the Cypriot community, most notably in Limassol.-External...

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Nikolaos Pavlopoulos

Nikolaos Pavlopoulos

Nikolaos Pavlopoulos was a Greek sculptor and writer. His education in his years in Volos, he learned himself with calligraphy, music and theatre. When he finished at the Practical Lyceum at Volos, he moved to Athens where he became a sculptor at the school where his teacher was Thomas...

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Kyriakos Rokos

Kyriakos Rokos

Kyriakos Rokos is a Greek sculptor.A number of his sculptures are displayed in the Republic of Cyprus and he was assigned with several other sculptors to create public artwork for the Cypriot community, most notably in Limassol....

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Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

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Vassilis Vassili

Vassilis Vassili

Vassilis Vassili is a Greek sculptor.A number of his sculptures are displayed in parts of Greek Cyprus and he was assigned with several other sculptors to create public artwork for the Cypriot community, most notably his stone display in Limassol....

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Lydia Venieri

Lydia Venieri

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Constantin Xenakis

Constantin Xenakis

Constantin Xenakis is a European artist based in France. His work often includes written script, in particular the Hebrew alphabet.-Life:...

Film directors

Kostas Andritsos

Kostas Andritsos is a Greek film director and writer.Films directed include AERA! AERA! AERA! .- External links :...

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Theo Angelopoulos

Theo Angelopoulos

Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...

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Michael Cacoyannis,
George Pan Cosmatos

George Pan Cosmatos

George Pan Cosmatos was a Greek/Italian film director. After studying film in London, he became assistant director to Otto Preminger on Exodus , Leon Uris's epic about the birth of Israel. Thereafter he worked on Zorba the Greek , in which Cosmatos had a small part as Boy with Acne...

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Costa Gavras,
Iakovos Kambanelis

Iakovos Kambanelis

Iakovos Kambanelis or Kampanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist. Born 2 December 1922 in Hora in the island of Naxos, Kambanelis appears as one of the most prominent Greek artists of the 20th century...

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Giorgos Konstadinou

Giorgos Konstadinou

Giorgos Konstadinou, born October 27, 1934 in Athens is a popular Greek actor, writer, and director. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s...

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Nikos Koundouros

Nikos Koundouros

Nikos Koundouros , is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926.He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography...

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Manakis brothers

Manakis brothers

The brothers Ianachia and Milton Manachia were pioneering photographers and filmmakers in the Balkans. In 1905 they filmed the first motion pictures in the Balkans in Ottoman Monastir...

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Nico Mastorakis

Nico Mastorakis

Nico Mastorakis is a Greek Z movie filmmaker, director and radio producer.-Early career:At the age of 18 Mastorakis as a young reporter with the Greek newspaper "Ethnikos Kirikas" scored his first international scoop, an exclusive interview with the exiled Princess Soraya...

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Laura Neri

Laura Neri

Laura Neri is a director of Greek and Italian origins. Born in Brussels, Belgium, she graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles with an MFA in Film Production.Laura Neri was born of a Greek mother and an Italian father...

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Dimitris Papamichael

Dimitris Papamichael

Dimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...

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Nikos Papatakis,
Pavlos Tassios

Pavlos Tassios

Pavlos Tassios was a Greek film director.Born in Polygyros, Greece, he directed such films as Ta vaporakia, Stigma, Parangelia!, To vary... peponi, Oi prostates, and Nai men, alla......

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Vassilis Photopoulos

Vassilis Photopoulos

Vassilis Photopoulos was an influential Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer.He was an Academy Award winner for the film Zorba the Greek for art direction....

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Yannis Smaragdis

Yannis Smaragdis

Yannis Smaragdis is a Greek film director.He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film Two Three Things... which received the first prize in the Athens Festival as well as a Special Mention in the Montreal Film Festival...

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George Tzavellas

George Tzavellas

George Tzavellas, also rendered Giorgos Tzavellas, Yiorgos Tzavellas, or Yorgos Javellas , was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright, considered "a key figure in Greek cinema after WWII". In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.-External...

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Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....

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Dimitris Voyatzis

Dimitris Voyatzis

Dimitris Voyatzis , born Dimitrios Voyatzis, was a Greek film director, actor, producer, editor, a screenwriter and a folk musician.- His films :His films include: Hobby mou... o Viasmos Dimitris Voyatzis , born Dimitrios Voyatzis, was a Greek film director, actor, producer, editor, a screenwriter...

Poets

Aris Alexandrou

Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional , he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among the classic modern Greek works in the second half of the 20th...

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Manolis Anagnostakis

Manolis Anagnostakis

Manolis Anagnostakis was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries and influenced the generation of poets immediately after him...

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Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas , is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.-Biography:Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she earned her Bachelor's degree in architecture...

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Demetrios Capetanakis

Demetrios Capetanakis

Demetrios Capetanakis or Kapetanakis or Capetanaces was a Greek poet, essayist and critic. For the last five years of his life he lived in Britain, and wrote some poetry in English....

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Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes was a renowned Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant...

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Athanasios Christopoulos

Athanasios Christopoulos

Athanasios Christopoulos , Greek poet, was born at Kastoria in Macedonia.He studied at Buda and Padua, and became tutor to the children of Alexander Mourousis, Prince of Wallachia...

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Nikos Dimou

Nikos Dimou

Nikos Dimou, born in 1935 in Athens, is a Greek writer. He has worked in advertising and as a columnist for magazines and newspapers.- Biography :...

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Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:...

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Andreas Embirikos

Andreas Embirikos

Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.-Life:...

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Nikos Engonopoulos

Nikos Engonopoulos

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Costas Evangelatos

Costas Evangelatos

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Rigas Feraios

Rigas Feraios

Rigas Feraios or Rigas Velestinlis was a Greek writer and revolutionary of Aromanian origin, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.-Early...

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Nikos Gatsos

Nikos Gatsos

-Biography:Nikos Gatsos was born in 1911 in Asea in Arcadia, a district of the Peloponnese, where he finished primary school . He attended high school in Tripoli, where he became acquainted with literature and foreign languages. Afterwards, he moved to Athens, where he studied literature,...

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Demetris Th. Gotsis

Demetris Th. Gotsis

Demetris Th. Gotsis is a Greek poet and author residing in Cyprus. He was born on October 26, 1945 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received musical education since his parents were trained opera singers.-Background:He specialized in...

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Sotiris Kakisis

Sotiris Kakisis

Sotiris Kakisis is a contemporary Greek poet. He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry . He has had a long career in journalism, excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted several films, notably director George Panousopoulos' "Love Me...

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Ektor Kaknavatos

Ektor Kaknavatos

Ektor Kaknavatos is the pen name of Greek poet and essayist Yorgis Kontoyorgis , who was born in Peireus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics in Athens...

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Andreas Kalvos

Andreas Kalvos

Andreas Kalvos was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century. Paradoxically enough, no known portrait of his survives today.-Biography:...

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Iakovos Kambanelis

Iakovos Kambanelis

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Nikos Karouzos

Nikos Karouzos

Giannakis 'Ioannis' Okkas is a Cypriot football striker. He currently plays for Anorthosis Famagusta FC. He is also the captain of the Cyprus national football team.- International career :...

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Kostas Karyotakis

Kostas Karyotakis

Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism...

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Nikos Kavvadias

Nikos Kavvadias

Nikos Kavvadias was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.- Early life and...

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council....

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Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Dimitris P. Kraniotis is a contemporary Greek poet. Born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio - Larissa, a coastal town in central Greece.- Biography :...

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Napoleon Lapathiotis

Napoleon Lapathiotis

Napoleon Lapathiotis was a Greek poet. A native of Athens, he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907, along with others, he established the Igiso magazine, in which he published his works...

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Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He was born and raised in Athens where he studied Law. From 1988-1991 he lived in Venice, then moved to London, studied philosophy at University College London and stayed there for thirteen years...

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Jean Moréas

Jean Moréas

Jean Moréas , was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.-Background:...

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Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioanis Polemis.-Biography:Born in Patras, he...

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Alexandros Panagoulis

Alexandros Panagoulis

Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture that he was subjected to during his...

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Lefteris Papadopoulos

Lefteris Papadopoulos

Lefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935. He is the son of Greek refugees from the Asia Minor and Russia. He enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but he stopped during the third year in...

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George Pavlopoulos

George Pavlopoulos

George Pavlopoulos was a Greek poet, relatively unknown outside Greece, but admired within his own country by fellow poets such as George Seferis....

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Maria Polydouri

Maria Polydouri

Maria Polydouri was a Greek poet.Polydouri was born in Kalamata. She was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis, with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair...

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Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves

Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves

Alexandros Rizos Rangavis , was a Greek savant, poet and statesman.- Early life :He was born at Constantinople to a Phanariot family. He was educated at Odessa and the military school at Munich...

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Yiannis Ritsos

Yiannis Ritsos

Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.-Early life:...

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Miltos Sachtouris

Miltos Sachtouris

Miltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Giorgos Sachtouris. When he was young he adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis...

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Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs . He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate...

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Angelos Sikelianos

Angelos Sikelianos

Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance...

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Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos was a Greek poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets...

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Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.-Biography:...

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Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. 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...

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Alexandros Soutsos

Alexandros Soutsos

Alexandros Soutsos was a Greek poet from a prominent Phanariote family. He founded the Greek Romantic school of poetry. Soutsos was born in Istanbul in 1803 from Chian parentage. At the time of the Greek Revolution, he was a young, liberal partisan. He wrote poems to encourage the insurgents....

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Alexis Stamatis

Alexis Stamatis

Alexis Stamatis is a well known Greek novelist, and poet born in Athens, Greece. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published nine novels...

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Theodore Stephanides

Theodore Stephanides

Theodore Stephanides was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist. He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell, featuring in Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and Fillets of Plaice, Durrell's brother Lawrence's Prospero's Cell, and Henry Miller's...

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Nanos Valaoritis

Nanos Valaoritis

Nanos Valaoritis is one of the most distinguished writers in Greece today. He has been widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939, and his correspondence with George Seferis has been a bestseller...

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Kostas Varnalis

Kostas Varnalis

Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.-Life:Varnalis was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 1884. As his name suggests, his family originated from Varna. He completed his elementary studies in the Zariphios Greek high school in Plovdiv and then moved to Athens to study literature at the National and...

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Vassilis Vassilikos

Vassilis Vassilikos

-Biography:A native of the northern Greek island of Thasos, Vassilikos grew up in Thessaloniki, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist....

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Haris Vlavianos

Haris Vlavianos

Haris Vlavianos , is a contemporary Greek poet.-Biography:He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol and Politics and History at the University of Oxford...

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Yannis Yfantis

Yannis Yfantis

Yannis Yfantis is a Greek poet who is awarded with the Cavafy Award. He was born in 1949 in Raina in the Etoloakarnania prefecture near Agrinio. He was presented to the Thessaloniki Public Broadcasting with Elliniki kai pagkosmia poiisi and Kata vathos to thema ine ena...

Novelists

Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas or Carcavitsas was a Greek novelist. He was a naturalist, like Alexandros Papadiamantis.-Biography:...

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Georgios Balanos,
Penelope Delta

Penelope Delta

Penelope Delta was a Greek author of books for children. Practically the first Greek children's books writer, her historical novels have been widely read and influenced Greek popular perceptions on national identity and history...

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Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis is a Greek writer.Since his early years Doxiadis was drawn to mathematics and at the age of 15 he entered Columbia University in New York City to study maths...

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Christos Garoufalis

Christos Garoufalis

Christos P. Garoufalis is a Greek painter. Since 1989, he had visited eight individuals and other expositions in Greece, Cyprus, England, France and Germany. In 2005 he sold from the Hellenic Post, a letter series: "ampelos - oinos" with his works.-References:*http://www.aitnia.gr...

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Vicky Hadjivassiliou

Vicky Hadjivassiliou

Evridiki Hadjivassiliou , also spelling as Hadjivasiliou or Hadjivasileiou, is a Greek author, television presenter and local politician who stood for PASOK in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was born and raised in Kilkis....

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Andreas Kalvos

Andreas Kalvos

Andreas Kalvos was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century. Paradoxically enough, no known portrait of his survives today.-Biography:...

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Christos Kapralos

Christos Kapralos

Christos Kapralos was a Greek artist of the 20th century. He was born in Panaitolto in the municipality of ThestiesHe studied drawing at a school with the help of the Agrinian Papastratou Bros...

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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Photios Kontoglou

Photios Kontoglou

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Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais or Coraïs was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as...

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Ioannis Kottounios

Ioannis Kottounios

Ioannis Kottounios, was an eminent Greek scholar who studied Philosophy, Theology and Medicine, taught Greek from 1617 and Philosophy from 1630 in Bologna, Italy becoming professor of philosophy in 1632 he also founded a college for unwealthy Greeks at Padua in 1653.- Biography :Ioannis...

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Yannis Makriyannis,
Menis Koumantareas,
Alexandros Papadiamantis

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer.-His life:Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest...

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Zacharias Papantoniou

Zacharias Papantoniou

Zacharias Papantoniou was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Papantoniou's work was basically the first to promote Evrytania...

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Pythagoras Papastamatiou

Pythagoras Papastamatiou

Pythagoras Papastamatiou , mainly known by the mononym Pythagoras, was a Greek lyricist and playwright.- Biography :He was born in 1930 in Agrinio where he lived until he became 18 years old. His family was descended from Samos. His parents met each other in Smyrna , shortly before the Asia Minor...

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Ioannis Psycharis

Ioannis Psycharis

Ioannis Psycharis was a French philologist of Greek origin, author and promoter of Demotic Greek.- Biography :...

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Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.-Biography:...

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Soti Triantafyllou,
Vassilis Vassilikos

Vassilis Vassilikos

-Biography:A native of the northern Greek island of Thasos, Vassilikos grew up in Thessaloniki, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist....

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Demetrius Vikelas

Demetrius Vikelas

Demetrios Vikelas, or Bikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the first president of the International Olympic Committee , from 1894 to 1896....

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Alki Zei

Alki Zei

Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's author. - Biography :Alki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a...

Dramatists and playwrights

Angelos Terzakis

Angelos Terzakis was a Greek writer of the 30s Generation. He composed short stories, novels and plays.-Life:...

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Crates (comic poet),
Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis is a Greek writer.Since his early years Doxiadis was drawn to mathematics and at the age of 15 he entered Columbia University in New York City to study maths...

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos

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M. Karagatsis

M. Karagatsis

M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya,...

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Nicos Nicolaides

Nicos Nicolaides

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Dimitris Psathas

Dimitris Psathas

Dimitris Psathas was a famous modern Greek satirist and playwright. He was born in Trabzon of Pontos in 1907 and died in Athens in 1979.He went to Athens in 1923 and finished his studies whereby he devoted himself to both journalism and the theatre. In 1937, he published his first book Justice is...

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Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves

Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves

Alexandros Rizos Rangavis , was a Greek savant, poet and statesman.- Early life :He was born at Constantinople to a Phanariot family. He was educated at Odessa and the military school at Munich...

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Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas

Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.-Biography:...

Modern period

Rita Abatzi

Rita Abatzi was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s.She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s...

, Maurice Abravanel

Maurice Abravanel

Maurice Abravanel was aSwiss-American Jewish conductor of classical music. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years.-Life:...

, Art Alexakis

Art Alexakis

Arthur Paul "Art" Alexakis is best known as the American singer, composer, and lead guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several notable bands, in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other artists...

, Louis Demetrius Alvanis

Louis Demetrius Alvanis

Louis Demetrius Alvanis is a classical pianist. He is of Greek origins.Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which...

, Costas Andreou

Costas Andreou

Costas Andreou is a musician from Athens, Greece. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. The organic instrument sound is processed with analog and digital effects and looped in real time, using various live looping techniques...

, Theodore Antoniou

Theodore Antoniou

Theodore Antoniou , is a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University...

, Grigoris Asikis

Grigoris Asikis

Grigoris Asikis was a Greek singer and songwriter of urban Greek music, Rembetiko. He wrote lyrics for most of the songs he recorded and played the outi .-Personal life:...

, Nikolas Asimos

Nikolas Asimos

Nikolas Asimos was a Greek composer and singer. His real surname was Asimopoulos . Asimos was a very special case of a counter-culture artist, mostly because of his choice of lifestyle. His behaviour and songs were often received as provocatory by the general public. He was a person with strong...

, Gina Bachauer

Gina Bachauer

Gina Bachauer , was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe....

, Arion

Arion

Arion was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth...

, Yiorgos Batis

Yiorgos Batis

Yiorgos Batis was one of the first rebetes influential to rebetiko music. His real name was Yiorgos Tsoros although he was known as Yiorgos Ampatis...

, Grigoris Bithikotsis

Grigoris Bithikotsis

Grigoris Bithikotsis was a popular Greek folk singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades.-Biography:...

, Miltiades Caridis

Miltiades Caridis

Miltiades Caridis was a German-Greek conductor.Caridis was born in Gdańsk, then Free City of Danzig. His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father was a merchant from Greece. His family moved to Weimar Germany and he was raised in Dresden, but his family moved to Greece in 1938,...

, Pavlos Carrer

Pavlos Carrer

Pavlos Carrer was a Greek composer.Carrer was born in Zakynthos. He studied in Zakynthos and in Corfu. In the early 1850s he moved to Milan, where his first operas and ballets were performed at the stages of the Teatro Carcano and the Teatro alla Canobbiana. In the same city he published some of...

, Petros Christo

Petros Christo

Petros Christodoulidis , born March 4, 1975 in Greece, is the current bass player of the Power metal band Firewind. He has also played in Breaking Silence. He is the owner of Emerald Cafe, named after the Thin Lizzy song, in his home town, Thessaloniki....

, Nikos Christodoulou

Nikos Christodoulou

Nikos Christodoulou is a Greek conductor and composer. Among other symphonic works he conducts Skalkottas, which he has recorded. He also conducts opera.-External links:*...

, Jani Christou

Jani Christou

Jani Christou was a Greek composer.He was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, of Greek parents. He was educated at the English School in Alexandria and he took his first piano lessons from various teachers and from the important Greek pianist Gina Bachauer...

, Christos Dantis

Christos Dantis

Christos Dantis , is a Greek singer, songwriter, and musician best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for composing and co-writing the song "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.- Early music career...

, Dionysios Demetis

Dionysios Demetis

Dionysios Demetis is a Greek composer, born in 1979 in Athens. He studied piano at the Ethnikon Odion in Athens. He is best known for two of his compositions, "Moonlight" and "Abyss". He released his first CD of piano compositions in 2000, The Heart Wreck on SpinRecords, a California record...

, Odysseas Dimitriadis

Odysseas Dimitriadis

Odysseas Dimitriadis was a Greek and at the same time Soviet classical music conductor. During his 70 year career, Odysseas had conducted a number of the world's leading orchestras, as well as being a main conductor of Georgia, USSR state orchestra and the Bolshoy Theatre orchestra...

, Marina Diamandis, Dimitris Dragatakis

Dimitris Dragatakis

Dimitris Dragatakis was a Greek composer of classical music.He was born in Platanousa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens...

, Antiochos Evangelatos

Antiochos Evangelatos

Antiochos Evangelatos was a Greek composer and conductor. He was born in Lixouri, Cefalonia on 25 December 1903. He studied composition and conducting in Leipzig, Basel and Vienna with Ludwig, Kofler and Felix Weingartner. From 1933 on he taught composition and counterpoint at the Hellenic...

, Kostas Exarhakis

Kostas Exarhakis

Kostas "Konstantine" Exarhakis is a Greek heavy metal musician. After playing bass for the unsuccessful thrash metal band Medieval Death in the late 1980s and early 1990s he gained minor recognition by playing on the first album by the power metal band Firewind. He played on this record effectively...

, Yorgos Foudoulis

Yorgos Foudoulis

Yorgos Foudoulis is a Greek classical guitarist and composer. His professional activities include performing, master classes, editing, and recording....

, Alexander Frey

Alexander Frey

Alexander Frey is an American symphony orchestra conductor. He is also known as a virtuoso organist and pianist. Frey is in great demand as one of the world's most versatile conductors, and has enjoyed great success in the concert hall and opera house, and in the music of Broadway and Hollywood.In...

, Gus G.

Gus G.

Kostas Karamitroudis aka Gus G., born September 12, 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne...

, Katy Garbi

Katy Garbi

Katerina 'Katy' Garbi is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus, with some popularity in Turkey. Her career has spanned over 20 years and is marked by several multi-platinum releases. Garbi was one of the most successful artists of the 1990s...

, Michalis Genitsaris

Michalis Genitsaris

Michalis Genitsaris was a Greek singer and composer of the rebetiko genre. He was known as the last pre-war rebetiko singer. Born in Piraeus, he composed songs such as Ego maggas fainomouna....

, Christos Govetas

Christos Govetas

Christos Govetas was born in the village of Proti, Serres in the province of Serres in Greek Macedonia. After emigrating to Boston in 1978 he joined the Greek rebetiko band Taximi as a bouzouki player and their main vocalist...

, Kostas Grigoreas, Manos Hadjidakis

Manos Hadjidakis

Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of the Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the "Éntekhno" song ....

, Alkinoos Ioannidis

Alkinoos Ioannidis

Alkinoos Ioannidis is a Greek-Cypriot composer, lyricist, singer and orchestrator.He was born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a painter father and poet brother was a source of inspiration for him. He first wanted to study drums, but couldn't due to the lack of a drum...

, Sotiris Kakisis

Sotiris Kakisis

, George Kallis

George Kallis

George Kallis is a highly regarded and prolific film composer, renowned for his memorable lyrical melodies and ethnomusicological traits to his scores. He has been described as “the new Jerry Goldsmith” during recent conducting sessions with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra...

, Manolis Kalomiris

Manolis Kalomiris

Manolis Kalomiris ), was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music.-Biography:Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov he settled in...

, Iakovos Kambanelis

Iakovos Kambanelis

, Alex Kapranos

Alex Kapranos

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley , commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a United Kingdom-based musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.-Early life:...

, Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...

, Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...

, Nikos Karvelas

Nikos Karvelas

Nikos Karvelas is a Greek songwriter, producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple...

, Georgios Kasassoglou

Georgios Kasassoglou

Georgios Kasassoglou was a Greek classical musician.-External links:*...

, Antonios Katinaris

Antonios Katinaris

Antonios Katinaris was born in Chania, Crete, the first son of a refugee family from Asia Minor. Since his earliest years, he demonstrated his interest and his talent in music. He was already a music professional at the age of 16...

, Bob Katsionis

Bob Katsionis

Babis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind, Revolution Renaissance and Outloud.-Appearances:...

, Leonidas Kavakos

Leonidas Kavakos

Leonidas Kavakos is a Greek virtuoso violinist .-Beginnings:Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos began studying violin at five years old and continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris. An Onassis Foundation scholarship enabled him to attend master classes...

, Stelios Kazantzidis

Stelios Kazantzidis

Stylianos Kazantzidis was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.-Biography :...

, Areti Ketime

Areti Ketime

Areti Ketime , born July 26, 1989, is a singer and a santouri player from Greece who performs a broad spectrum of Greek traditional music....

, Panayiotis Kokoras

Panayiotis Kokoras

Panayiotis Kokoras is a Greek composer, musician, teacher, writer and Vice President of HELMCA -Studies:Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi, K. Varotsi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at...

, Iakovos Kolanian

Iakovos Kolanian

Iakovos Kolanian is a Greek classical guitarist born in Piraeus, Greece and is best known for his performances and transcriptions of ethnic folk music for the classical guitar.-Biography:Kolanian was born in 1960, to an Armenian father and a Greek mother...

, Stavros Koujioumtzis

Stavros Koujioumtzis

Stavros Kouyioumtzis, also Kougioumtzis, Kouyoumtzis, or Koujioumtzis, is one of the most significant Greek music composers of the 20th century....

, Akis Katsoupakis

Akis Katsoupakis

Akis Katsoupakis is a Greek musician, arranger and record producer.-Biography:Born and raised in the city of Thessaloniki, Katsoupakis got into music from the age of 11. He studied piano, classical harmony, and counterpoint. He also took lessons in jazz theory and Jazz piano and seminars on...

, Rena Kyriakou

Rena Kyriakou

Rena Kyriakou was a pianist and composer born in Herakleion, Crete, Greece.-Education:Rena Kyriakou revealed an early aptitude for the piano and for composition, and gave her first public performance at the age of six in Athens, performing twelve original piano pieces...

, Andreas Lagios

Andreas Lagios

Andreas Lagios plays bass in the black metal band Rotting Christ and in the stoner rock band Nightstalker.-References:...

, Alexandre Lagoya

Alexandre Lagoya

Alexandre Lagoya was a classical guitarist. His early career included boxing and guitar, and as he cites on the sleeve of his 1981 Columbia album, his parents hoped he would outgrow his predilection for both....

, Tim Lambesis

Tim Lambesis

Tim Lambesis is an American musician, best known as the founding member, lead vocalist of American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. He also has a solo/side project in tribute to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Death Machine, in which he performs all the required instruments...

, Leo Leandros

Leo Leandros

Leo Leandros , is a Greek musician, composer and producer. Born in Astakos, Greece, Leandros left in the 1950s for Germany to pursue a career in singing and composing. He had some success, but shifted his focus to his daughter, Vicky, who had been singing from a very early age and turned out to be...

, Manos Loizos

Manos Loïzos

Manos Loïzos was considered to be one of the most important Greek music composers of the 20th century.-Biography:...

, Sokratis Malamas

Sokratis Malamas

Sokratis Malamas is a Greek singer and songwriter.One of the great songwriters of his generation with a very personal and identifiable musical style in his narrative songs....

, Nikolaos Mantzaros

Nikolaos Mantzaros

Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros was a Greek composer born in Corfu and the major representative of the so called Ionian School of music...

, Giannis Markopoulos, Kostas Martakis

Kostas Martakis

Konstantinos "Kostas" Martakis is a Greek singer, who rose to fame after appearing on Greek talent show Dream Show aired by Alpha TV in 2006. Following his participation, he went on to release three studio albums and also participated in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008...

, Thanos Mikroutsikos

Thanos Mikroutsikos

Athanasios Mikroutsikos was born in Patras, Greece and is one of the leading composers of popular and classical music in his home country. He studied music theory and piano at the Patras Philharmonic Society and at the Greek Conservatory and continued under Yiannis A. Papaioannou...

, Dimitris Mitropoulos

Dimitris Mitropoulos

Dimitri Mitropoulos , was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer. Also known as Dimitris Mitropoulos.-Life and career:Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis and Angeliki Mitropoulos. His father owned a leather goods shop at No. 15, St Marks Street. He was musically precocious,...

, Kostas Mountakis

Kostas Mountakis

Kostas Mountakis was a Greek musician who popularized the traditional music of the island of Crete, primarily with the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra. His parents came from the village Kallikratis in Sfakia, Crete...

, Georges Moustaki

Georges Moustaki

Giuseppe Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki , is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...

, Orianthi Panagaris, Tzimis Panousis

Tzimis Panousis

Tzimis Panousis is a Greek musician and stand-up comedian born in Athens on February 12, 1954, where he has spent most of his life. His fans often refer to him as “Tzimakos”...

, Lefteris Papadimitriou

Lefteris Papadimitriou

-Biography:He was born in Volos, Greece and lives in Athens. He studied composition with Iannis Ioannidis and has written many compositions for live instruments and electronic media....

, Lefteris Papadopoulos

Lefteris Papadopoulos

, Thanassis Papakonstantinou

Thanassis Papakonstantinou

Athanasios Papakonstantinou is a Greek singer-songwriter.-Short biography:He is married, with two children. Papakonstantinou studied Mechanical Engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practices as well as being a musician...

, Elena Paparizou

Elena Paparizou

Eleni "Elena" Paparizou , usually referred to abroad as Helena Paparizou, is a Greek-Swedish singer and occasional songwriter, who was born and raised in Sweden by Greek parents. She began her career there in 1999 as a member of the duo Antique, while she also worked briefly as a model for a...

, Apostolos Paraskevas

Apostolos Paraskevas

Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist. He was born in Volos, Greece.Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award winning Film Director/Producer...

, Stelios Perpiniadis

Stelios Perpiniadis

Stelios Perpiniadis , better known as Stellakis , was a Greek folk musician who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the rebetiko style. He was the father of another well-known Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis....

, Phivos

Phoebus (songwriter)

Phoebus sometimes spelled Phivos or Fivos , is a well-known songwriter in both Greece and Cyprus. Phoebus is mostly known for his music through Despina Vandi and Katy Garbi, although he has composed albums for many other artists in Greece and Cyprus...

, Sadahzinia

Sadahzinia

Sadahzinia is a Greek rapper, regarded by many as the first woman that entered the hip-hop scene in Greece. Her name is a made up play on the words: "sad" + "jah"+ the flower "zinia". Since 1994 she had been working in the studio and live shows in Greece and Europe with the successful hip-hop/low...

, Sakis Rouvas

Sakis Rouvas

Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...

, Spyros Samaras, Dionysis Savvopoulos

Dionysis Savvopoulos

Dionysis Savvopoulos is a Greek music composer, lyricist and singer.He was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963 he moved to Athens, terminating his law studies in favour of his career in music...

, Kyriakos Sfetsas

Kyriakos Sfetsas

Kyriakos Sfetsas is a Greek composer. His body of work consists of a large number of compositions: symphonic, choral, ballet and theatre music, chamber, electronic, film scores, pieces for solo instruments, pieces in jazz and fusion style, songs in Greek and world poems.-Early life:Sfetsas was...

, Dimitris Sgouros

Dimitris Sgouros

Dimitris Sgouros is a Greek classical pianist. He began playing the piano at a young age, and received formal training in Athens, London, and New York. Widely acclaimed for his prodigious musical talent as a boy, Sgouros is one of the world's leading concert pianists...

, Pavlos Sidiropoulos

Pavlos Sidiropoulos

Pavlos Sidiropoulos was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics.- Art :...

, Nikolaos Skalkottas

Nikolaos Skalkottas

Nikos Skalkottas was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition....

, Kostas Skarvelis

Kostas Skarvelis

Kostas Skarvelis was a Greek composer of popular music, οf the genre of rembetiko in particular. He also wrote the lyrics for his songs and was an excellent guitar player, having participated in many recordings.-Life:...

, Camille-Marie Stamaty

Camille-Marie Stamaty

Camille-Marie Stamaty was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies . Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris...

, Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...

, Giorgos Theofanous, Marios Tokas

Marios Tokas

Marios Tokas Greek composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. In the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish invadors. In 1975 he went to Athens in order to study in the philosophical school. At the same time, he studied in the Ethniko Odio because he wanted to...

, Sakis Tolis

Sakis Tolis

Sakis Tolis is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist of Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem. He has recently produced some of the band's albums and contributed as session keyboardist...

,
Michalis Travlos

Michalis Travlos

Michalis Travlos was born in 1950 in Piraeus, Greece. He started his musical studies at Athens National Conservatory in 1970 with Professor Michalis Vourtsis. In 1975, he was accepted to the Hochschule das Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Professor Isang Yun until 1980, when he...

, Tatiana Troyanos

Tatiana Troyanos

Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent.-Early life:...

, Iovan Tsaous

Iovan Tsaous

Iovan Tsaous , , was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko songs from Pontus. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis .-Biography:...

, Vassilis Tsitsanis

Vassilis Tsitsanis

Vassilis Tsitsanis was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetika. Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary bouzouki...

, Markos Vamvakaris

Markos Vamvakaris

Markos Vamvakaris , was a rebetiko musician. He is universally referred to by rebetiko writers and fans simply by his first name, Markos...

, Despina Vandi

Despina Vandi

Despina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...

, Vangelis

Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...

, Marios Varvoglis

Marios Varvoglis

Marios Varvoglis was a Greek composer of the Modern Era. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Schola Cantorum with Leroux, Georges Caussade, d'Indy and others...

, Anna Vissi

Anna Vissi

Anna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress...

, Haris Xanthoudakis

Haris Xanthoudakis

Haris Xanthoudakis is a Greek composer.A native of Piraeus, Xanthoudakis studied with, among others, Iannis Xenakis. Besides music, he has worked in the fields of philology, glottology, semiotics, and art history...

, Stavros Xarhakos

Stavros Xarhakos

Stavros Litras is a Greek composer and conductor.Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema...

, Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...

, Nikos Xilouris

Nikos Xilouris

Nikos Xylouris , nicknamed Psaronikos , was a Greek composer and singer from thevillage of Anogeia in Crete and also the older brother of two other great musicians of Cretan music, Antonis Xylouris or Psarantonis and Yiannis Xylouris or...

, Nikos Xydakis

Nikos Xydakis

Nikos Xydakis, in Greek Νίκος Ξυδάκης) is a Greek composer, pianist and singer. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he immigrated with his family to Greece in 1963. Much of his music has its root in theatrical music....

, Spyridon Xyndas

Spyridon Xyndas

Spyridon Xyndas or Spiridione Xinda was a Greek composer and guitarist, whose last name has also been transliterated as "Xinta", "Xinda", "Xindas" and "Xyntas".-Biography:...

, Mirka Yemendzakis

Mirka Yemendzakis

Mirka Yemendzakis is a Greek actress, musician, voice coach and director based at the National Theatre of Greece in Athens.She has collaborated with Peter Brook, Peter Oskarson and Robert Wilson, as well as eight years with Peter Stein at the Berliner Schaubühne.- References :...

, Yanni

Yanni

Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

, Savvas Ysatis

Savvas Ysatis

-Early life:Ysatis was born in Athens, Greece, and developed an interest in the synthesizer through exposure to electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre in the late 1970s. At age 15, he left Greece to move to New York City, where he acquired some musical equipment and...

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