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- 10/11/1927 (Creation)
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30 x 17.5 cm
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Angelos Sikelianos was born on the island of Leucas (Lefkada, Greece) in 1884. He settled in Athens in 1900 and started publishing his poems two years later. In 1907 he married Eva Palmer, with whose support and full-hearted participation he organised the Delphic Festivals (1927, 1930). Sikelianos was also a prose writer and a composer of tragedies. He died in Athens in 1951.
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Handwritten letter by Angelos Sikelianos in three pages of a bifolio. The last page is blank. He informs of the despatch of his poem "The Song of the Argonauts" (most probably to the journal Alexandrini Techni) and refers to the Delphic Festival. Reference to Cavafy. (Delphi)
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Greek
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Writing in ink.
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Sikelianos, Angelos. “Letter by A. Sikelianos [to Alexandrini Techni]”. Letter, 10.11.1927. GR-OF CA SING-S02-F06-SF002-0001 (702), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds (Alexandrini Techni Archive). From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S02-F06-SF002-0001.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Sikelianos, Angelos (Authority)
- Vaïanos, Marios (Subject)
- Cavafy, C. P. (Subject)
- Pargas, Stefanos (Subject)