Between Teos and Sparta: The revolution in Panagiotis Soutsos’ The Cithara (1835)
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Between Teos and Sparta: The revolution in Panagiotis Soutsos’ The Cithara (1835)
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04 December 2021
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“Fallen our Giants … Now a race of pigmies/Has been founded on the holy relics of the demigods.” Alexis Politis has cited these lines from Alexandros Soutsos as marking the beginning of the modern Greek tendency to self-disparagement. A complex (or confused) blend of themes reflecting much the same outlook marks his brother Panagiotis’ neglected collection of lyric poems published just two years into the reign of King Otto. This volume, torn between the Anacreontic tradition of Phanariot verse and the events, heroes, and locations of the 1821 revolution, all wrapped up in borrowings from the poetry of revolutionary Europe, and prefaced by some sharp political reflections, deserves attention as an early (though artistically uneven) response to the Revolution and its “demigods”.
(Edited abstract from organiser’s website)
(Edited abstract from organiser’s website)
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