Bruce Merry Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature 1

casional poems, epic compositions, and a number of school textbooks. a rcsource which in nineteenth-century Greecc was slow to evolve. Thus Antoniadis’s four-volume Universal IIistoty, as well as a geography and grammar by him, formcd the educational base of a generation of Greek school pupils. Sonie of his dra-matic compositions dealt with heroes

APOKOPOS From Crete, in the last ąuarter of the fifteenth century, comes Apokopos, the first book in everyday spo-ken Greek. It was printed at Venice (1519), in an edition by Nicholas Kal-licrgis that has not survived. By conven-tion. the work carries as its title the single