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Idou O Anthropos
''Idou o anthropos'' (Greek: Ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄνθρωπος; '' Ecce homo'' or ''Behold the Man''), written in 1886, is a work by the poet and writer Andreas Laskaratos. The main theme of the book is human characters and through a series of examples it tries to acquaint the reader with the different attributes of the human psyche in its different manifestations. The multitude of different characters portrayed in the book is an early attempt to categorize people according to their personality traits. Idou anthropos (Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...: Ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος) is also the words ironically uttered by Pilate, when condemning Jesus, Jesus being in the epitomal state of God becoming Man. References Modern Greek literature Heptanese School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Laskaratos
Andreas Laskaratos ( el, Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος; 1 May 1811 – 23/24 July 1901) was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia (or Kefallinia), representative of the Heptanese School (literature). He was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church because his satire targeted many of the church's prominent members. Biography Andreas Laskaratos was born in Lixouri in 1811, at the time when the Ionian islands were moving from the French to the British as a protectorate. He was considered to be highly spirited by nature, intelligent and glib. He was intensely satirical and constant in his views, publishing works which contrasted the views of his time. The fact that he did not hesitate to freely express his views by criticizing hypocrisy became the main reason behind his arrest and imprisonment, persecutions, and excommunication by the church. He lived through the entire process of unification of the Ionian islands with mainland Greece but he di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Greek Literature
Modern Greek literature is literature written in Modern Greek, starting in the late Byzantine era in the 11th century AD. It includes work not only from within the borders of the modern Greek state, but also from other areas where Greek was widely spoken, including Istanbul, Asia Minor, and Alexandria. The first period of modern Greek literature includes texts concerned with philosophy and the allegory of daily life, as well as epic songs celebrating the akritai (Acritic songs), the most famous of which is '' Digenes Akritas''. In the late 16th and early 17th century, Crete flourished under Venetian rule and produced two of the most important Greek texts; ''Erofili'' (ca. 1595) by Georgios Chortatzis and ''Erotokritos'' (ca. 1600) by Vitsentzos Kornaros. European Enlightenment had a profound effect on Greek scholars, most notably Rigas Feraios and Adamantios Korais, who paved the way for the Greek War of Independence in 1821. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heptanese School (literature)
The term Heptanese School of literature ( el, Επτανησιακή Σχολή, links=no, literally: "The School of the Seven Islands", also known as the Ionian School) denotes the literary production of the Ionian Island's literature figures from the late 18th century till the end of the 19th century. The center of this production is considered to be the poet Dionysios Solomos, so its periods are conventionally divided as follows: Pre-Solomian poets (Προσολωμικοί ποιητές), Solomian poets, Post-Solomian poets, Minors and Descendants. General traits Some general traits of the Ionian style were: *the use of Dimotiki instead of Katharevousa (with some exceptions, mainly Kalvos), *the manifest influence that the contemporary Italian poets had in its thematology, that is regarding the depiction of real-life scenes, *the worship of homeland, *the worship of nature, *a " romantic impulse" (also described as folkloric idealism), *an emphasis on the importance of love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
