Stylianos Alexiou
Stylianos Eleftheriou Alexiou ( Greek Στυλιανός Ελευθερίου Αλεξίου ; born February 13, 1921 in Heraklion , Crete ; † November 12, 2013 ibid) was a Greek classical archaeologist , neo-Greekist and Byzantinist .
Life
After attending school, Alexiou completed a degree in Classical Archeology and Central and Modern Greek Philology . From 1962 to 1977 he was director of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion and Ephoros of Antiquity ( Γενικός Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων ). From 1977 until his retirement in 1991 he held a full professorship for Classical Archeology at the University of Crete , founded in 1973 .
Alexiou was a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens , a member of the Athens Archaeological Society and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Padua , Athens and Cyprus .
Research priorities
Alexiou discovered the late Minoan tombs of the port of Knossos and the early Minoan Tholos tombs of life (Λεβήν) near today's Lendas (Λέντας Ηρακλείου). In addition to expanding the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, he founded the museums of Chania and Agios Nikolaos . His publications cover the entire spectrum of archaeological topics related to Minoan and Archaic culture , including the bull leaping . His main work Das antike Kreta (1967) was also published in English , French and Italian translation .
As Neogräzist he was mainly involved in the literature of the Cretan Renaissance, so the dream narrative Apokopos , the verse romance Erotokritos of Vitsentzos Kornaros and Hirtenidyll Βοσκοπούλα ( Voskopúla ), but also with the Byzantine epic Digenis Akritas and the poet of the Greek War of Independence, Dionysios Solomos .
Fonts (selection)
Archaeological writings
- Ancient Crete. Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1967. Translations into English, French and Italian.
- Υστερομινωικοί τάφοι Λιμένος Κνωσσού. 1967 (Βιβλιοθήκη της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας). - ("Late Minoan tombs of the port of Knossos")
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Μινωικός Πολιτισμός. Heraklion, 1969.
- German translation: Minoan culture. Series of great moments of archeology . Musterschmidt Verlag, Göttingen 1976.
- Contributions in: Jörg Schäfer (Ed.): Amnisos according to the archaeological, historical and epigraphic evidence of antiquity and modern times. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1992.
- Μινωικά και Ελληνικά. 2002 (Στιγμή). - ("Minoan and Greek")
- with Peter Warren: The Early Minoan Tombs of Lebena. Paul Åström Förlag, Savedalen 2004.
Writings on modern Greek literature
- Διονυσίου Σολωμού Ποιήματα και πεζά (Στιγμή, Athens 2007). - (" Poems and prose by Dionysios Solomos")
- Διονυσίου Σολωμού Η γυναίκα της Ζάκυθος (Ιδεόγραμμα, 2005). - (" The wife of Zakynthos by Dionysios Solomos")
- Κρητικά φιλολογικά. Στιγμή, Athens 1999. - ("Philological remarks on Cretan literature")
- Δημώδη βυζαντινά. Στιγμή, Athens 1997. - ("Byzantine Folk Songs")
- Βιτσέντζος Κορνάρος : Ερωτόκριτος . Επιμέλεια Στ. Αλεξίου. Εστία, Αθήνα 1995 (Νέα Ελληνική Βιβλιοθήκη); first: Βιτσέντζος Κορνάρος : Ερωτόκριτος . Κριτική έκδοση, εισαγωγή, σημειώσεις, γλωσσάριο. Μεγάλη έκδοση: Ερμής, Athens 1980, μικρή έκδοση: Ερμής, Athens 1985.
- Βασίλειος Διγενής Ακρίτης και το άσμα του Αρμούρη . Κριτική έκδοση, εισαγωγή, σημειώσεις, γλωσσάριο. Ερμής, Athens 1985. - (Critical edition of the Escorial version).
- Η Κρητική λογοτεχνία και η εποχή της. Μελέτη φιλολογική και ιστορική. Στιγμή, Athens 1985. - ("The Cretan Literature and its Age. A Philological and Historical Study")
- Μπεργαδής: Ἀπόκοπος. Ἡ Βοσκοπούλα . Ἐπιμέλεια: Στυλιανός Ἀλεξίου. Hermes, Athens, 1971 (Νέα Ελληνική Βιβλιοθήκη, 15).
- Ο χαρακτήρ του 'Ερωτοκρίτου' . In: Κρητικά Χρονικά , 1952, pp. 351-422. - ("The character of 'Erotokritos'")
Web links
- Literature by and about Stylianos Alexiou in the catalog of the German National Library
- European Society for Neo-Greek Studies: † Στυλιανός Αλεξίου , November 19, 2013, accessed on December 31, 2013 (obituary)
- Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη: Πέθανε ο αρχαιολόγος και φιλόλογος Στυλιανός Αλεξίου , in: Το Βήμα , November 12, 2013, accessed December 31, 2013 (obituary, with photos and
- Εθνικό Κέντρο Βιβλίων ("National Book Center"): Αλεξίου Στυλιανός (1921–2013) ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , last edited November 14, 2013, accessed on December 31, 2013 (short biography in Greek, with further Photography and bibliographical information)
- perizitito.gr: Αλεξίου Στυλιανός (short biography in Greek, with a third photograph)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hellēnikon who's who. 1965, p. 24.
- ↑ Πέθανε ο αρχαιολόγος και φιλόλογος Στυλιανός Αλεξίου , Το Βήμα , November 12, 2013, accessed on November 19, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexiou, stylianos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexiou, Stylianos Eleutheriu; Αλεξίου, Στυλιανός Ελευθερίου (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek classical archaeologist, Neo-Graecist and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heraklion |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Heraklion |