Yianis Vilaras

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name = Ioannis Vilaras
"Γιάνης Βηλαράς"
birth_date = 1771
birth_place = Kythira in the Ionian Islands (now in Greece )
death_date = 1823
death_place = Zagora, Ottoman Empire (now in Greece )
occupation = poet, prose writer

Ioannis Vilaras (Greek:Γιάνης Βηλαράς , 1771 - 1823) was a Greek lyricist and a writer with important use on linguistus questions.

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Ioannis Vilaras was born on the island of Kythira, then part of the Venetian Republic, he later moved to Ioannina. His father was a doctor in the area and he also studied medicine in Padova, Italy. His travelling to the Epirot capital, he was mainly a doctor. After the fall of Ioannina from the Turkish battleground, he fled to Tsepelovo in Zagori where he died three years later in 1823.

Works

Yiannis Vilaras was one of the first modern Greek poets in the history and he taught the basis of the moder Greek literature. He used Modern Greek and not the Ancient and he wrote in historic orthography including tones. The most famous work that he wrote was Romeiki glosa (Ρομεηκη γλοσα, different from "Romaiiki glossa") written in Corfu in 1814 in which was different from the modern dialect of Greek, between in which the formula of lingustics of confidence. His grammatic in which he wrote was split in two pages. The rest of his works includes "Gnothi safton". In 1953, Apanta of Yianni Vilaga was published in which included erotic and lyric poems, myths and enigmas. Far from the rich author-like works of Villaras, it was also written in Ancient Greek.

Works

Poetry

Proses

References

*"The first version of the article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)