Mesolonghi
What was the residence of Kostis Palamas from 1867 to 1875?
Kostis Palamas Kostis Palamas ( ; – 27 February 1943 ) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn . He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School ( or Palamian School , or Second Athenian School ) along with Georgios Drosinis , Nikos Kampas , and Ioannis Polemis . Biography . Born in Patras , he received his primary and secondary education in Mesolonghi . In 1877 he enrolled at the School of Law , Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens , but he soon abandoned his studies . In 1880s , he worked as a journalist . He published his first collection of verses , the Songs of My Fatherland , in 1886 . He held an administrative post at the University of Athens between 1897 and 1926 , and died during the German occupation of Greece during World War II . His funeral was a major event of the Greek resistance : the funerary poem composed and recited by fellow poet Angelos Sikelianos roused the mourners and culminated in an angry demonstration of a 100,000 people against Nazi occupation . Palamas wrote the lyrics to the Olympic Hymn , composed by Spyridon Samaras . It was first performed at the 1896 Summer Olympics , the first modern Olympic Games . The Hymn was then shelved as each host city from then until the 1960 Winter Olympics commissioned an original piece for its celebration of the Games , but the version by Samaras and Palamas was declared the official Olympic Anthem in 1958 and has been performed at each celebration of the Games since the 1960 Winter Olympics . The old administration building of the University of Athens , in central Athens , where his office was located , is now dedicated to him as the Kosti Palamas Building and houses the Greek Theater Museum , as well as many temporary exhibitions . Poetry . He has been informally called the national poet of Greece and was closely associated with the struggle to rid Modern Greece of the purist language and with political liberalism . He dominated literary life for 30 or more years and greatly influenced the entire political-intellectual climate of his time . Romain Rolland considered him the greatest poet of Europe and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature on a total of 14 occasions , but never received it . His most important poem , The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy ( 1907 ) , is a poetical and philosophical journey . His Gypsy is a free-thinking , intellectual rebel , a Greek Gypsy in a post-classical , post-Byzantine Greek world , an explorer of work , love , art , country , history , religion and science , keenly aware of his roots and of the contradictions between his classical and Christian heritages . Works . Collections of poems . - Songs of my Fatherland ( 1886 ) - Hymn to Athena ( 1889 ) - Eyes of my Soul ( 1892 ) - Iambs and Anapaests ( 1897 ) - The Grave ( 1898 ) - The Greetings of the Sun-born ( 1900 ) - Ή Ασάλευτη Ζωή ( The Motionless Life ) ( 1904 ) - Twelve Lays of the Gypsy ( 1907 ) - The Kings flute ( 1910 ) - Yearnings of the Lagoon ( 1912 ) - Satirical Exercises ( 1912 ) - The State and Solitude ( 1912 ) - Altars ( 1915 ) - Extempora ( 1919 ) - The 14 verses ( 1919 ) - The 5 verses - The passionate secret whispers - The Wolves - Two flowers from afar ( 1925 ) - Cowardly and Harsh verses ( 1928 ) - The 3 Verse Cycle ( 1929 ) - Passages and Greetings ( 1931 ) - The Nights of Phemius ( 1935 ) - Evening Fire ( 1944 , posthumous edition by his son , Leander Palamas ) Prose . - Death of a Youth ( novel , 1901 ) - Novels ( 1920 ) Theater . - The Thrice-noble ( drama , 1903 ) Criticism . Palamas was one of the most respected literary critics of his day , and instrumental in the reappraisal of the works of Andreas Kalvos , Dionysios Solomos and the Ionian School of poetry , Kostas Krystallis et al . Translations . - The Kings Flute , tr . T . P . Stephanides , G . C . Katsimbalis ( 1982 ) [ Greek and English texts ] - The Kings Flute , tr . F . Will ( 1967 ) - The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy , tr . G . Thomson ( 1969 ) - The Twelve Words of the Gypsy , tr . T . P . Stephanides , G . C . Katsimbalis ( 1974 ; repr . 1975 ) - Ruins , Grief , On The Trip You Are Taken , Rose Fragrance , tr . A . Moskios