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    Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης [oðiˈseas eˈlitis], pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, Greek: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 2 November 1911 – 18 March...
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    The Odysseas Elytis Theater in Ios, Greece is an open-air theater of the ancient Greek style designed by the architect Peter Haupt, a professor of architecture...
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  • This is a list of some poems that have been subsequently set to music. In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an...
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    Mytilene International Airport "Odysseas Elytis" (IATA: MJT, ICAO: LGMT) is the international airport of Mytilene, the capital of the Greek island Lesbos...
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    The 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Greek poet Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996) "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition...
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    The Jean Marie Drot Museum in Ios Tomb of Homer View of Chora Chora Odysseas Elytis Theatre Windmills Manganari Beach Young Hippies on Ios during the 1970s...
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    world poetry – Epiphania (Giorgos Seferis), Little Kyklades (Odysseas Elytis), Axion Esti (Elytis), Mauthausen (Iakovos Kambanellis), Romiossini (Yannis Ritsos)...
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    the first Greek laureate to win the Nobel Prize (followed later by Odysseas Elytis in 1979). Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna (present day Izmir, Turkey)...
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    (best known for Zorba the Greek), the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco). Elli...
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    awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Seferis in 1963, and Odysseas Elytis in 1979. Ancient Greek philosophy involved a disposition to value reasoning...
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    Bernardakis, playwright Stratis Myrivilis (1892–1969), Greek writer Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996), Greek poet, Nobel Laureate in 1979 Argyris Eftaliotis...
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  • Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches "To Axion Esti", a poem by Odysseas Elytis Montreal Axion, a Canadian hockey team Cable Axion, a Canadian cable...
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    patron, and publisher Hermon di Giovanno (c. 1900–1968), painter Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996), poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 Stratis Myrivilis...
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    Andreas Embirikos, Yiannis Ritsos, Nikos Engonopoulos, and Odysseas Elytis. Seferis and Elytis were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963 and 1979 respectively...
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    Tsarouchis, Theophilos (Athens: The Commercial Bank of Greece, 1966). Odysseas Elytis, The Painter Theophilos, pub. Ypsilon, Athens 1996. ISBN 960-17-0011-0...
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    such modern Greek poets as Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis. His poetry though holds steadfastly to the Greek Cypriot linguistic...
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    literature: he is for Greek prose what Dionysios Solomos is for poetry. As Odysseas Elytis wrote: "commemorate Dionysios Solomos, commemorate Alexander Papadiamantis"...
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  • Andreas Empeirikos Nicolas Calas Aris Alexandrou Manolis Anagnostakis Odysseas Elytis Nikos Karouzos Melissanthi Katina Papa Giorgos Seferis Yiannis Ritsos...
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    Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by Odysseas Elytis, who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). But in his acceptance speech...
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    himnografía bizantina en To Axíon estí de Odysseas Elytis" [Echoes of Byzantine hymnography in To Axíon estí by Odysseas Elytis]. Erytheia: Revista de estudios...
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    Solzhenitsyn Böll White Pinter Johnson Martinson Montale Aleixandre Singer Elytis Miłosz Canetti Golding Seifert Brodsky Cela Heaney Szymborska Fo Saramago...
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  • novels from Greek to English, including writing by Nikiforos Vrettakos, Odysseas Elytis, Kiki Dimoula and Nikos Engonopoulos. David Connolly was born in Sheffield...
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    Embirikos, Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis; the novelists Alexandros Papadiamantis, Emmanuel Rhoides, Ion Dragoumis...
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  • the global literary community. The Greek authors George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ancient literature...
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    wide range of themes (e.g., in summer 2012, the life and work of poet Odysseas Elytis). The museum library, featuring rare editions and much archive and...
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  • 1999). What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1986). The Little Mariner by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1988). Eros...
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    author, born in Heraklion, 7 times suggested for the Nobel Prize Odysseas Elytis, poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979, born in Heraklion...
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    Theodorakis "Romiosini" poetry by Yiannis Ritsos and "Axion Esti" poetry by Odysseas Elytis. In these concerts texts of the poets were read by George Kimoulis...
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    Encomium Agni Parthene Hymns to Mary Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones Odysseas Elytis In the archaic sense of the word; see "magnification". "magnify". Online...
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  • (Mikis Theodorakis, 1963, poetry by Odysseas Elytis) "To Axion Esti" (Mikis Theodorakis, 1964, poetry by Odysseas Elytis) Gioconda's Smile (Manos Hatzidakis...
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