Vlassis G. Rassias

Vlassis G. Rassias (; 22 April 1959 – 7 July 2019) was a Greek writer, publisher, leader, and activist.

Biography Rassias was born in Athens in 1959 and received a degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He became involved in alternative culture and founded the magazines Speak Out (1979), Anoichtí Póli (Open City; 1980–1993) and Diipetés (Sent by Zeus; 1991–2012), and published the mail art magazine Eínai Ávrio (It's Tomorrow) from 1983 to 1986.

From the late 1970s and onwards he was engaged in advocacy for indigenous peoples and their ambition to retain their traditions and national dignity. He initially focused on indigenous peoples of the Americas, but eventually on the heritage from ancient Greece. In 1997 he co-founded the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), a non-profit organisation whose primary goal is the protection and restoration of the Hellenic ethnic religion in contemporary Greek society. He led the organisation as its secretary general for the remainder of his life. In 2017 it was officially recognised by the Greek government, which granted Hellenic believers the right to openly worship, build temples, perform marriages and funerals, and write their religious beliefs on birth certificates. He also showed a particular affinity for the philosophical school of the Stoics.