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Dionysios Solomos

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Dionysios Solomos

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Also known as Dyonisios Solomos

Greek poet (1798–1857)

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Dionysios Solomos was a male person born on April 8, 1798, and died on February 9, 1857. He is associated with the area of Toronto. Various sources list different counts for his works, including 5, 36, and 71. Among his top works are *Ho ethnikos hymnos tou Solōmou*, *Panēgyrikon teuchos epi tē hekatontaetēridi apo tēs gennēseōs tou ethnikou poiētou Dionysiou Solōmou*, *Dyo koryphaioi tēs ethnikēs palingenesias*, *Dionysiou Solōmou autographa erga*, and *Hapanta ta heuriskomena*.

Solomos is referenced by 438 other encyclopedia articles. His quotes include “Anything is true, is essential to the national.” and “Beautiful, moral world, created in an angelic way.” He has 6 listeners and a playcount of 74 on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1798
Died
1857
Works
71

Top works

  • Ho ethnikos hymnos tou Solōmou
  • Panēgyrikon teuchos epi tē hekatontaetēridi apo tēs gennēseōs tou ethnikou poiētou Dionysiou Solōmou
  • Dyo koryphaioi tēs ethnikēs palingenesias
  • Dionysiou Solōmou autographa erga
  • Hapanta ta heuriskomena

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Toronto

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
74

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dionysios+Solomos">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Dionysios Solomos

Quotes

  • Anything is true, is essential to the national.
  • Beautiful, moral world, created in an angelic way.

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Key facts

Native name
Διονύσιος Σολωμός
Born
( 1798-04-08 ) 8 April 1798, Zakynthos , Département de la Mer-Égée (modern-day Greece )
Died
9 February 1857 (1857-02-09) (aged 58), Kerkyra , United States of the Ionian Islands (modern-day Greece)
Occupation
Poet
Language
Greek , Italian
Nationality
Greek
Education
University of Pavia , ( LL.B. , 1817)
Notable awards
Gold Cross of the Redeemer , 1849

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Dionysios Solomos, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Dionysios Solomos statue in Zakynthos (city)

Dionysios Solomos (/ˈsɒləmɒs/; Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός [ði.oˈnisios soloˈmos]; 8 April 1798 – 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían), which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. He is considered the national poet of Greece, not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός (The Cretan), Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι (The Free Besieged). A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dionysios Solomos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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