George Dandoulakis

Rigas (1757 to 1798), author of miscellaneous writings, including political pamphlets and maps, deserves a place next to Solomos and Kalvos as a true a revolutionary and poet dedicated to the cause of Greece.  His Thurios is not simply a poetic call to revolution, but also a political manifesto for the kind of new free Greek State he was envisaging .  The poems significance lies in the fact that, apart from embracing the ideals of the French Revolution, it nowhere suggests that the liberation of Greece will be achieved through the help of the European powers.  Instead, Regas ground he hopes on the Greek Armed Forces of the Klephts and the Armatoloi.

George Dandoulakis  (1950),  B.A. in English  (Athens),  BA in History and Archaeology (Athens), Ph.D.  (Loughborough), teaches English at the Hellenic Army Military Academy in Athens. he has lectured widely both in Greece and abroad, and published essays on Greek and English writers.  His translations of well-known Greek poets have appeared in many journals, and his translation of Kalvos' Odes into English was the first to have been made.  (Shoestring Press 1998).

"ODES by Andreas Kalvos, translated by George Dandoulakis, with introduction and notes.  (Shoestring press, Nottingham.  £9.95.) This well produced book is recommended.  The first English version of a poet known for his obscurities and linguist knottiness, well translated."

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