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The Ionian School

The Ionian School. Late 18th -19th c. Prose Writers. The Ionian authors were primarily poets. Elizabeth Mutzan-Martinengou : Autobiography (Important for Women’s Studies) Polylas : Essay, Translation, Literary Criticism. Prosolomic Poets.

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The Ionian School

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  1. The Ionian School Late 18th -19th c.

  2. Prose Writers • The Ionian authors were primarily poets. • Elizabeth Mutzan-Martinengou: Autobiography (Important for Women’s Studies) • Polylas: Essay, Translation, Literary Criticism

  3. Prosolomic Poets • Fondness of boucolic poetry (Theokritos, Virgil), and the ideas of the Enlightenment • Martelaos: • Mainly patriotic poetry • Danelakis: • A liberal follower of the Enlightenment • Prepared the intellectual background of the Ionian School Zakynthos

  4. Solomos • Born in Zakynthos, died in Corfu • Lyric poet • Patriotic poetry • Use of Ionian dialect • Influences from Italian literature • He wrote in both Greek and Italian

  5. Contemporaries of Solomos and later Ionian poets • Kalvos (inspired by the war of independence) • Maviles (Sonett writer) • Valaorites (bridges the Ionian school with Romantic mainland literature) • Laskaratos (pioneer of modern Greek humorous literature)

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