Dionysios Solomos
Poet, Author
1798 – 1857
Who was 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. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece—not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός, Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι and others. A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.
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- Born
- Apr 8, 1798
Zakynthos - Also known as
- Dionysios Solōmos
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Greeks
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pavia
Law
(1815/11 - 1817)
- University of Pavia
- Lived in
- Zakynthos
- Corfu
- Died
- Feb 9, 1857
Corfu - Resting place
- Museum of D. Solomos and Eminent People of Zakynthos
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on July 23, 2013
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