Jump to content

Ioannis Sykoutris

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ioannis Sykoutris, also Johannes Sykutris (Greek: Ιωάννης Συκουτρής) (Smyrna, 1 December 1901 — Corinth, 22 September 1937) was a Greek classical philologist and professor at the University of Athens.

Early life and education

[edit]

Sykoutris was born in 1901 in Smyrna to a very poor family of Chian origin. He graduated in 1918 from the Evangelical School of Smyrna and became a school teacher. In 1919 he went to Athens where he studied at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Athens, graduating in 1922.[1][2][3] With the burning of Smyrna in 1922, his family came to Athens.[3]

In 1925 he went to Leipsiz and Berlin for further studies and returned to Greece in 1929.[3]

Career

[edit]

Between 1922-1924 he taught philosophy, ancient greek and modern greek at the Pancyprian Seminary of Larnaca (Παγκύπριο Ιεροδιδασκαλείο Λάρνακας).[3][2] He was interested in Cypriot history and ethnography and he travelled across the island to collect material for his research.[3] While in Cyprus, in January 1923, he founded with other literary figures of the time, such as Neoklis Kyriazis and Nikodimos Mylonas, the first Cypriot literary journal, Kypriaka Chronika.[4]

In 1924 he returned to Greece where he worked in the Philosophiko Spoudastirio (Φιλοσοφικό Σπουδαστήριο). In 1929 he taught at the Arsakeio, subsequently he was employed at the Academy of Athens and finally as a lecturer of Ancient Greek literature at the University of Athens.[3] Some of his favourite students were Antonis Moraitis [el],[5] and Demetrios Capetanakis.[6]

Together with Simos Menardos he revived the series of Hellenike Bibliotheke of Adamantios Korais, under the auspices of the Academy of Athens.[7]

Personal life and death

[edit]

He died by suicide in Corinth in 1937 at the age of 36.[3] It is believed that the reason for his suicide was the backlash of his publication of Plato's Symposium and Sykoutris treatment of homosexuality as a component of Classical Greek culture.[6]

Legacy

[edit]

Sykoutris is considered among the founders of the field of Cyprological studies, together with Athanasios Sakellarios and Konstantinos Sathas.[8] He contributed significantly to the subject of Hellenic and Byzantine studies.[9] His gave his archive from his work in Cyprus to his friend Louis Loizou from Famagusta, and it was lost during the 1974 war.[10]

Publications

[edit]

Publications about Sykoutris

[edit]
  • Μαρινάτος, Σ. (1938). Ιωάννης Συκουτρής, Μικρασιατικά Χρονικά, Τόμος Α', 474-481.
  • Λαούρδας, B. (1938). Ὁ Ἰωάννης Συκουτρῆς καὶ οἱ μαθηταί του, Νέα Εστία, 23/266, 127-128.
  • Δετζώρτζης, N. (1938). Ὁ Ἰωάννης Συκουτρῆς ὡς διδάσκαλος, Τα Νέα Γράμματα, 4/4-5, 343-367.
  • (1988). Ιωάννης Συκουτρής. Πενήντα Χρόνια από τον Θάνατο του. Εταιρεία Σπουδών και Νεοελληνικού Πολιτισμού και Γενικής Παιδείας
  • Κακριδής, Φ. Ι. (2008). Γράμματα του Ιωάννη Συκουτρή από την Κύπρο (1922-1924). Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης.
  • Αλικανιώτης, Δ. (2008) Ιωάννης Συκουτρής: Η ζωή του 1901-1937, Αθήνα: Κάκτος.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Amantos, K. (1937). "JEAN SYKOUTRIS. Ἰωάννης Συκουτρῆς". Byzantion. 12 (1/2): 727–730. ISSN 0378-2506.
  2. ^ a b Körte, A. (1938). "Johannes Sykutris". Gnomon. 14 (1): 62–64. ISSN 0017-1417.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Polignosi. "Συκουτρής Ιωάννης". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  4. ^ Polignosi. "«Κυπριακά Χρονικά»". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  5. ^ Savidis, Manuel (1997). "From Birth to Boston (And Back): George P. Savidis 1929-1995". Harvard Review (12): 129–134. ISSN 1077-2901.
  6. ^ a b Kantzia, Emmanuela (2018-04-27). "Dear to the Gods, yet all too human: Demetrios Capetanakis and the Mythology of the Hellenic". The Historical Review/La Revue Historique. 14: 187. doi:10.12681/hr.16300. ISSN 1791-7603.
  7. ^ Marshall, F. H. (1938). "Ἀριστοτέλους Περὶ Ποιητικῆς. Translation by the late Simos Menardos. Introduction, text and commentary by the late I. Sykoutris. Ἀκαδημία Ἀθηνῶν. Ἑλληνικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη. Pp. 148 + 285. Athens: Kollaros. 1937". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 58 (2): 289–290. doi:10.2307/627351. ISSN 0075-4269.
  8. ^ Κοκκινόφτας, Κωστής. "Ο Ιωάννης Συκουτρής και Κύπρος. Η αλληλογραφία του με τον Αρχιεπίσκοπο Κύπρου (1916-1933) Κύριλλο Γ ́" (PDF). Εκκλησία της Κύπρου. Kέντρο Mελετών Iεράς Mονής Kύκκου. pp. 1–42.
  9. ^ Moravcsik, Gy. (1965). "Byzantinologie Et Hellénologie". Byzantion. 35 (1): 291–301. ISSN 0378-2506.
  10. ^ Τομπόλη-Θεοδούλου, Κλαίλια (2024-04-15). "Η Κυπριακή Βιβλιοθήκη". simerini.sigmalive.com. Retrieved 2024-04-23.