Panagiotis Aravantinos ( el, Παναγιώτης Αραβαντινός, 1809 or 1811 – 1870) was a Greek scholar and educator who was born in

Parga Parga ( el, Πάργα ) is a town and municipality located in the northwestern part of the regional unit of Preveza in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Kanallaki. Parga lies on the Ionian coast between the ...

. He worked primarily in

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, which was then under the rule of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. As with many Greek names, his names appears in English literature in a variety of Romanizations, e.g. the first name as Panagiōtēs or Panayiotis etc., and the last name, as Aravandinos. Aravantinos is recognized as the author of an important early work on the history of Epirus. In the English-speaking world Aravantinos in mostly known as a folklorist. The collection of folk songs he had collected in his region, "Συλλογή δημωδών ασμάτων της Ηπείρου", was published posthumously in Athens in 1880. Soon after, on the initiative of

John Stuart Stuart-Glennie John Stuart Stuart-Glennie (1841–1910) was a Scottish barrister, folklorist, philosopher, founding sociologist, and socialist. Life He was the son of Alexander Glennie of Maybank Aberdeen; John Stuart of Inchbreck was his maternal grandfather ...

, the songs collected by Aravantinos, along with the folkloric material from other collections, were translated by

Lucy Garnett Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1849–1934) was a folklorist and traveller. She is best known for her work in Turkey. She also translated Greek folk poetry. See also *''Turkey of the Ottomans'' References

English folklorists Women folklorist ...

and made available to the English reader. In Stuart-Glennie's view, it was here, in Aravantinos' northern Greece, where the ancient Greek folkloric tradition was best preserved.

External links

Αραβαντινός, Παναγιώτης Σταμ.
- Panayiotis Aravantinos' works, with full text available for some

Notes

1870 deaths Folklorists from the Ottoman Empire Greek folklorists History of Epirus Year of birth uncertain People from Parga {{greece-bio-stub