Takis Dimopoulos

Takis Dimopoulos (Greek: Τάκης Δημόπουλος, Pyrgos, Greece, 1898 – Athens, Greece 1981) was a Greek essayist, novelist and philologist.

Life Dimopoulos was born in Pyrgos, a city in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in 1898.

He was a member of the Association of Greek Writers, and collaborated with the magazines Anglo-Greek Review, Nea Estia, Nea Skepsi and Parnassos, and also with newspapers like Avgi Pyrgou, Kathimerini, Neologos, Patris, etc. His commentary was on essays, prose and poetry and dealt with issues of aesthetics and philosophy in literature, especially regarding the poetry of Angelos Sikelianos, with whom he was very close. He also worked with the writers Renée Jacquin, Paulette Ghiron-Bistagne and Phaedon K. Mpoumpoulidis.

The ancient-mythic, the Dionysian-Bacchic, the Orphic-mystic, the physiological-regenerative, Hellenic-Christian, erotic-maternal, national-competitive, the oecumene, peaceful-conciliatory elements, were the poetic themes of Sikelianos' work that were researched and interpreted by Dimopoulos.

Indicative list of works Logic (1901) The Dithyramb of the Rose (1934) (critic review of Sikelianos' tragedy) Sikelianos. The dialectic of a lyrical life (1971) (study) Logos and Art (1975) (study) Sikelianos, the Orphic (1981) (study) Reflections (1985) (unpublished lectures, calendar pages and literary excerpts) Angelos Sikelianos. The poet and connoisseur (1988) (two-volume edition of Sikelianos' work) Olympia and the Olympic Games (1996)