Panayótis Soútsos

Greek poet

Also known as: Panagiotis Soutsos

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Panayiótis Soútsos was a Greek poet, known for his contributions to Greek Romantic poetry. He, along with his brother Aléxandros Soútsos, introduced the novel into Greece. While his dramas and prose work, Exóristos ("The Exile"), were considered artificial, his numerous lyrics were admired by his contemporaries. Soútsos was influenced by French Romantics and liberal political thought, with his verse satires inspiring early modern political liberalism in Greece. His longest poem, Periplanómenos ("The Wanderer"), was modeled after Lord Byron's Childe Harold.12

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Greek literature
Old Athenian School
The Soútsos brothers, Aléxandros and Panayótis, introduced the novel into Greece, but they are best known for their Romantic poetry, which as time went by moved gradually away from the Demotic (“popular”), or commonly spoken, language toward the Katharevusa (“purist”) form institutionalized by Koraïs. The work of these writers, which…
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The Soútsos brothers, Aléxandros and Panayótis, introduced the novel into Greece, but they are best known for their Romantic poetry, which as time went by moved gradually away from the Demotic (“popular”), or commonly spoken, language toward the Katharevusa (“purist”) form institutionalized by Koraïs. The work of these writers, which…
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Olympic Games
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…turn, got the idea from Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet who was the first to call for a modern revival and began to promote the idea in 1833. Brookes’s first British Olympiad, held in London in 1866, was successful, with many spectators and good athletes in attendance. But his subsequent…
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…turn, got the idea from Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet who was the first to call for a modern revival and began to promote the idea in 1833. Brookes’s first British Olympiad, held in London in 1866, was successful, with many spectators and good athletes in attendance. But his subsequent…
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