Epitaphios [Greek]

by Yiannis Ritsos and Γιάννης Ρίτσος

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated 'to the heroic workers of Salonika' and drawing on the fourteenth-century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Greek
• ISBN: 0992740967
• ISBN13: 9780992740962
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"