Dionysios Solomos

greece, national poet, hymn to liberty, zakynthos, literature

Born Apr 08, 1798

Zakynthos, Greece

Passed Away Feb 09, 1857 Zakynthos, Greece

Lifespan 58 years old

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"Enclose within your soul Greece, and you will feel every kind of greatness vibrate within you."

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National poet of Greece who composed the 'Hymn to Liberty', the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus.

Biographical Record

Count Dionysios Solomos was the foremost poet of the Ionian School and the national poet of Greece, celebrated for elevating the demotic (vernacular) Greek language into sublime high literature.

Born in Zakynthos and educated in Italy, Solomos was inspired by the 1821 Revolution to compose the monumental 158-stanza poem 'Hymn to Liberty' in 1823, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros to become the national anthem.

His unfinished epic 'The Free Besieged' (Eleftheroi Poliorkimenoi), commemorating the heroic fall of Missolonghi, is universally regarded as a supreme masterpiece of Greek poetry.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Solomos Museum Mausoleum
Zakynthos, Greece

                         GPS: 37.7872, 20.8978                    

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