Naxos-born Iakovos Kampanellis (1922-2011) was one of Greece’s foremost post-World War II playwrights. He participated in the wartime resistance against the Germans but was arrested in 1943 and sent t ...

Manolis Glezos, a native of Apiranthos, Naxos, is best –but not least- known for the first resistance act against the wartime German occupation of Greece. Born in 1922, he moved to Athens with his fam ...

Nikiforos Mandilaras, born in Koronos, Naxos in 1928, was a lawyer and prominent political activist in the years before the military coup d’ etat of 1967. During the Axis occupation of Greece he joine ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is perhaps the most important writer and philosopher of modern Greece. A prolific novelist, poet and playwright, he is best known for his works “Zorba the Greek” and “The Last Tempta ...

Petros Protopapadakis was a prominent political figure in the early 20th century. Born in Apiranthos, Naxos in 1860, he completed his secondary education on the island of Syros and studied mining engi ...