Tilegrafos was a newspaper published in Alexandria (Egypt) from 1880 to 1924. Its first owner was Xenofon Saltis and later Achilleas Kyriakopoulos. It was a very influential daily newspaper, having included amongst its columnists Sotiris Liatsis, Iraklis Lachanokardis, and A. Vitalis. C. P. Cavafy also published in the newspaper.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975) was a British historian. He studied at Oxford and taught at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of London, and at the London School of Economics; he also was Director of Studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His brief stay (1911-1912) at the British School at Athens (Greece) greatly imbued his philosophical ideas about the decline of civilisations. He was a prominent analyst of the developments in the Middle East, while some of his numerous studies are dedicated to Greek history.
Constantine A. Trypanis was born in 1909 on the island of Chios (Greece), where he finished school. He studied Classics at the Universities of Athens, Berlin and Munich. He served as professor with the Universities of Athens (1939-1945), Oxford (1947-1968), and Chicago (1968-1974). He returned to Greece in 1974. He was elected in the Academy of Athens and served as Minister of Culture (1974-1977). He authored scientific studies that span the whole spectrum of Greek philology, from antiquity to modern times, while he published poetry collections in English and Greek. He died in Athens (Greece) in 1993.
Georgios V. Tsokopoulos (1871-1923) was born in Athens (Greece) and worked as a journalist. He collaborated with many newspapers and journals published in Athens. He was the director of Omonoia of Alexandria (Egypt) and of Estia in Athens. He wrote plays (romantic comedies, dramas and political satires) and librettos as well as prose (novels, short stories, and children’s literature). In Alexandria he published the journal Eikonografimenon Aigyptiakon Imerologion in the first volume of which (1894) four poems by Cavafy were included. He was the director of the Mousiki Efimeris during its second period of publication (1896).
Georgios Vafopoulos (1903-1996) finished high school in Thessaloniki (Greece) and first published his poems in journals in 1921. Three years later he took over the management of the journal Makedonika Grammata. He founded the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki in 1938, becoming its director until 1963. He wrote poetry and prose.