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1. Name: Dionysios Solomos
Date of Birth: April 8th
1798
Place of Birth: Zakynthos
A few words about his life
Dionysios Solomos was a central figure of the Eptanesiom School. His
parents were Nikolaos Solomos and Aggelina Niklis. He had three siblings, Roberto, Helena and
Demetros. In 1815 he enrolled at the Law school of Pavia in Italy from which he graduated in 1817. In
Corfu, Dionysis Solomos found himself among a cycle of admirers and poets. In a core of men of intellect
with great education and with progressive and liberal ideas. With an aesthetic style and strict
expectations for Art. He studied German romantic philosophy intensively. But due to the fact that he
didn’t speak German , he read them though Italian translations that his friend Nicolaos Zampelios was
doing for him. The most important people that the poet related to were: Nikolaos Mantzaros , John and
Spyridon Zampelios , Petos Vrailas Armenis, julios Typaldos, Andrew Laskaratos, Gerasimos Markoras.
Dionysios Solomos died in 1865 in Zakynthos.
A few words about his work:
Solomos’ “students”, Polylas, Typaldos and Markoras , were the poets that form the “Solomonic poets”
cycle from who the poetic rise of Greek poetry starts. The first important in the Greek creation of the
poet was ‘’Ode to Liberty’’ which was completed in May of 1823, a poem which was inspired by the
Greek Revolution of 1821. The Cretan (1833). Free under siege (until 1845). The Scarlet (1847) are the
poems by Dionysios Solomos which are considered his best.