Ioannis Kakridis (philologist)

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Ioannis Kakridis ( Greek Ιωάννης Κακριδής , also Johannes Theophanes Kakridis ; born November 17, 1901 in Athens ; † March 20, 1992 ibid.) Was a Greek classical philologist .

Life

Kakridis was the son of the classical philologist Theophanes Kakridis (1869-1929), who was a professor of Latin philology in Athens. Kakridis studied literature at the universities of Athens , Vienna , Berlin and Leipzig . In 1922/23 he worked as a high school teacher in Spetses . In the period 1924-1931 he was editor of the Historical Dictionary of the Greek Language of the Academy of Athens.

He received his doctorate from the University of Athens and was initially assistant in 1930 and professor at the University of Thessaloniki in 1933 . From 1939 to 1945 he was a professor at the University of Athens, but returned to Thessaloniki in 1945, where he taught until 1968 and was rector of the university in 1957 and 1962. In 1947 he spent a year of research in Sweden.

He was a staunch advocate for the adoption of monotonic orthography in the Greek language. In 1941 he was reported by the faculty at the University of Athens for publishing a lecture in the monotonic system, which led to the so-called "accent trial" and his suspension and later temporary discharge from the university.

Works

Kakridis was a Homer scholar and one of the most important classical scholars of the twentieth century in Greece. He has published numerous writings. His most important works are a translation of the works of Homer together with Nikos Kazantzakis into modern Greek and a five-volume collection of Greek mythology .

  • Homeric Researches . Lund 1949; Reprinted New York 1987, ISBN 0-8240-7757-1 .
  • The Thucydidean Epitaphios. A stylistic comment . Beck, Munich 1961, ISBN 3-406-03266-4 .
  • The ancient Greeks in the modern Greek folk belief . Heimeran, Munich 1967
  • Modern Greek scholia to Homer . In: Gymnasium 78, 1971, pp. 505-524.
  • Homer revisited . Lund 1971.

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  1. ↑ Sophia Papaioannou: Translating Homer in 20th century Greece: the 'Silent' Voice of a Revolution ( Memento of May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Kakridis, Ioannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kakridis, Johannes Theophanes; Κακριδής, Ιωάννης (elS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1992
Place of death Athens