On Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. (subsequent lectures, same time, Thursday, November 20, and Thursday, November 27), the 8th series of lectures by the Society of Authors and the Epigraphic Museum will take place, with speakers who are members of the Society and topics covering a wide range of fields, such as Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Environment, etc.

This second autumn cycle, featuring literary critic and prose writer Kostas Voulgaris as speaker, has as its theme “Three milestones in modern Greek poetry (and the smile of Michael Psellos)”.

The lectures:

Thursday, November 13, 2025: Dionysios Solomos as the founding moment of modern Greek identity

Dionysios Solomos manages a large part of modern Greek realities at the moment they are born, as a result of the Revolution; particularly in The Woman of Zakynthos, which is characterized by a rare presentism that recalls the feast of ideas in late Byzantium and vindicates Michael Psellos, the cause of the decline of “our eastern state,” according to Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos.

Thursday, November 20, 2025: The conspiratorial poetry of Nikos Engonopoulos

Bolivar, Kolokotronis, Garibaldi, Velouchiotis… Nikos Engonopoulos’s chorus of revolutionaries, as well as his persistent use of Masonic symbols, refer to his conspiratorial poetry, which aims to reestablish modern Greek identity, cleansing the establishment’s corruption and mutation of the first revolutionary momentum, picking up the thread from Solomos.

Thursday, November 27, 2025: What story of our history did Elias Lagios tell us?

Elias Lagios retells us the general story, as well as the history of modern Greek poetry and language, going even further back than Solomos and recalling in the present tense, in a present poetic, all the linguistic, aesthetic, and poetic forms that preceded it, creating a contemporary poetic project. As Psellos would say in his case, “once the current of art and ideas absorbed him, with one part of it further nourishing his intellect, with the other uniting it with the living source of his familiar soul, and the whole became communicable and drinkable.”

Kostas Voulgaris (Doliana, Arcadia, 1958) is a literary critic and prose writer. From 1995 to 2004, he was a member of the editorial board of the ideas magazine “O Politis.” He was a regular contributor to the magazines “Anti” and “Planodion.” From 2002 to 2025, he was responsible for the insert “Anagnoseis” in the Sunday edition of the newspaper “Avgi” and at the same time worked as an editor of texts and books. He lives in Ano Doliana, Arcadia.

Attendance at all lectures is free of charge. Reservations are required. To register, please contact the lecture coordinator, Ms. Angeliki Stratigopoulou (Writers’ Association), at [email protected]. If all seats are filled, you will receive a negative response via email. Otherwise, your participation will be accepted.