About Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857) was a Greek poet best known for writing the "Hymn to Liberty," of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece. A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.