DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS
GREEK COMPOSER
Hailing from the village Melissopetra-Gortynia, Dimitris
Mitropoulos was born in Athens in 1896.
He wrote expressionist and atonal music, but stopped the
composition and devoted himself to conducting.
Rehearsed with the orchestra without a score, he knew
by heart the voices of all organs.
For his compositions, Mitropoulos was influenced by modern
musical trends of his time. Works are: "My soul," "The Greek
sonata", "Four KYTHERIAN dances", the opera "Beatrice,"
which premiered in 1919 at the Municipal Theatre of Athens.
On 2 November 1960 gets a last and fatal heart attack at the
podium of La Scala in Milan during a rehearsal of 3 Agreement
Gu.
Mahler.
According to his wishes, his body was cremated in Switzerland
and his ashes returned to Athens, where exposed to public
veneration at the Conservatory Herodius Atticus.
NIKOS GATSOS
(8 December 1911, Asea Tripolis12 May 1992, Athens)
GREEK POET, TRANSLATOR
AND LYRICIST.
•Nikos Gatsos was born in 1911 in Asea in Arcadia
of Peloponnese, where he finished primary school.
He attended high school in Tripoli, where he
became acquainted with literature and foreign
languages.
• He studied literature, philosophy, and history at the
University of Athens, where he came in contact with
the literary circles and published his poems, small in
extent and in a classic style.
• He devoted considerable time to translating plays
from various languages in Greek. All of the plays he
translated were staged at the Greek National
Theatre and the Greek Theatre of Art.
• He wrote lyrics for major Greek composers, including
Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros
Xarchakos. His lyrics are known over the world
because of Nana Mouskouri.
CONSTANTINOS GAVRAS
(born 12 February 1933)
•Costa-Gavras was born in Arcadia. His family spent the Second
World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Tripolis
for 2 years. His father had been a member of the left-wing
branch of the Greek Resistance.
•He lives and works in France as a filmmaker and he is best
known for films with overt political themes, most famously the
fast-paced thriller, Z (1969).
• Costa-Gavras is known for merging controversial political
issues with the entertainment value of commercial cinema.
Law and justice, oppression, legal/illegal violence, and torture
are common subjects in his work, especially relevant to his
earlier films.
• His 1967 film Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) was entered
into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
• Some movies: The Sleeping Car Murders (1965), Shock Troops
(Un homme de trop) (1967), Z (1969), L'Aveu (1970), State of
Siege (1972),Section spéciale (1975), Clair de femme (1979),
Missing (1982), Hanna K. (1983) Eden in West (2009), Le
Capital (2012)…
ALEXANDROS PAPANASTASIOU
(8 July 1876–17 November 1936)
Greek politician, sociologist and
Prime Minister.
He was born in Arcadia, son of Member of Parliament
Panagiotis Papanastasiou. He studied law in the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1895–
1898), he studied social science, law and philosophy in
the Humboldt University of Berlin and in 1907, he
returned to Greece.
• In 1910, Papanastasiou was elected for the first time to the
Hellenic Parliament.
• After World War 1, Papanastasiou took part in several
Venizelos governments.
• He published a document entitled "The Democratic
Manifesto" which criticised the Monarchy.
• From 1926 until 1928, he was Minister of Agriculture and was
instrumental in the establishment of the Agricultural Bank of
Greece.
• Papanastasiou briefly served as Prime Minister once more
between May and June 1932.
YIANNIS KOUROS
(born February 13, 1956
in Tripoli, Greece)
He is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in
Melbourne. He is sometimes called the "Running
God" or “Pheidippides Successor". He holds every
men's outdoor road world record from 100 to 1,000
miles and every road and track record from 12
hours to 6 days.
• Kouros came to prominence when he won the
Spartathlon in 1984 in record time and the Sydney to
Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1985 in a record time of
5 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes and 6 seconds. He beat the
previous record held by Cliff Young.
• Kouros says that his secret is that "when other people
get tired they stop, I DON'T. I take over my body with
my mind I tell it that it's not tired and it listens".
• Kouros has also written over 1,000 poems (several of
which appear in his book Symblegmata (Clusters) and
the book The Six-Day Run of the Century.
Yiannis Kouros passed by our
school,
on his running for the
memory of Nikita
Stamatelopoulos
(Nikitaras).