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Biographies (28)

Archaeologists

Marinatos Spyridon

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1901 - 1974

Encyclopaedia Britannica web page

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?idxref=163047...

Platon Nikolaos

MESSOVOUNIA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1909

Directors

Evangelatos Spyros

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1940
Son of Evangelatos Antiochos.

Famous families

Katsaitis family

The family came from Trapezous and settled on the island of Kefalonia after the fall of Constantinople (1453). A member of this family, Katsaitis Petros, was an important writer of the 17th century.

Alivizatos family

Fighters of the 1821 revolution

Metaxas Andreas

ARGOSTOLI (Town) KEFALLONIA
1790 - 1860
Politician

Androutsos Odysseas

ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1788 - 1825

Mathematicians

Pylarinos Othon

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1903

Zervos Panayiotis

ZERVATA (Settlement) KEFALLONIA
1878 - 1952
Professor of the university and academician.

Musicians

Rodotheatos Dionyssios

ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
1849 - 1982

Pilarinos Gerasimos

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA

http://www.mmb.org.gr/eem/composers/Pilarinos/pila... (1 img.)

Evagelatos Antiochos

1903 - 1981

National benefactors

P. Vallianos

KERAMIES (Village) KEFALLONIA

Novelists

Laskaratos (Typaldos) Andreas

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1811 - 1901
Poet, critic and one of the most important satirists in modern Greece.

Philosophers

Damodoos Vikentios

CHAVRIATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
1700 - 1752

Pylarinos Frangiskos

LIXOURI (Small town) KEFALLONIA
1802 - 1882
Follower of the utopian socialism.

Poets

Homer

ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
Editor’s Information:
Biography, reports and essays on Homer can be found at his birthplace the island of Ios, one of the places that claim the honour of his origin and where is his tomb. There are also other places among the claimants, which are mentioned in an epigram (Gell. III, 11), including the island of Ios: the island of Chios, Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis in Cyprus, Argos, Athens, Cyme in Aeolis, Pylos and Ithaca.