Alexandros A. Mátsas ( el, Αλέξανδρος Μάτσας, 1911 – 1969) was a

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poet and

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of Greece. He was born in

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. After following courses on

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and

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, he entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1934. He served in various posts in

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, and

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, and was Royal Greek Ambassador to

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and the United States of America

He published several books of poetry (the first written in French) and three poetical dramas on ancient themes, of which two (''Clytemnestra'' and ''Croesus'') were produced by the Royal Theater of Athens in 1957 and 1963 respectively.

Works

*''Poems''. Athens. 1946. President John F

References

*''Modern European Poetry.'' Bantam Books, 1966.

Kimon Friar Kimon Friar (April 8, 1911 – May 25, 1993) was a Greek-American poet and translator of Greek poetry. Youth and education Friar was born in 1911 in İmralı, Ottoman Empire, to a Greek father and a Greek mother. In 1915, the family moved to th ...

editor and translator of the Greek section.
Columbia dictionary of modern European literature
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