Odysseas Elytis Museum
A museum dedicated to the poet and Nobel prize winner in literature, Odysseas Elytis.
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Modern and Contemporary era (1821 - )
2020 The restoration of the spaces began.
2023 The museum operated.
A museum dedicated to the poet and Nobel prize winner in literature, Odysseas Elytis.
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The Odysseas Elytis Museum is intended for the protection of the archival and exhibition material of the Nobel laureate poet. We learn about the poet’s life, work, aesthetic simplicity, his workplace and his personal belongings. In addition to being an exhibition space, it is also a study centre. The main building and the two auxiliary ones were granted to the NGO AERTON, which is responsible for the space’s operation. Along with the Elytis’ priceless poems, the visitor can get to know his prose works, visual creations, music adaptations and translations and at the same time watch a very interesting audio-visual material related to his life.
Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996) was a Greek poet and painter. He highlighted the cradle of Greekness, being at the same time a pioneer of the modern movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979 for his work Axion Esti, which was set to music by Mikis Theodorakis. He belongs to the renewal movement of Greek poetry. Through a moderate surrealistic lyricism, which is often found in works of southern European poets, Elytis managed to glorify the Greek tradition and the turbulent Greek History.
Unsigned, (2023), Ο Οδυσσέας Ελύτης θα μας «περιμένει» στο δικό του μουσείο στην Πλάκα, [Odysseus Elytis will “wait” for us in his own museum in Plaka] in Lifo
Last visit 10/8/2024
Maronitis D. N., (2003), Λογοτεχνία του Πολέμου 1939- 1949, [Literature of War 1939- 1949], in Ιστορία του νέου ελληνισμού, 1770-2000, [History of modern Hellenism], Ellinika Grammata, v.8, p.p. 301- 320
San Simera, (d.u.), Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (1911-1996), in San Simera.gr
http://www.sansimera.gr/biographies/557
Last visit 10/8/2024
2020 The restoration of the spaces began.
2023 The museum operated.
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