Georgios Chortatzis Explained

Georgios Chortatzis
Birth Date:c. 1550
Birth Place:Rethymno, Crete (then Kingdom of Candia)
Death Date:c. 1660
Nationality:Greek
Field:Literature
Movement:Cretan Renaissance, Cretan literature
Works:Erofili, Katsourbos, Panoria

Georgios Chortatzis or Chortatsis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γεώργιος Χορτάτζης/Χορτάτσης; c. 1545 – c. 1610)[1] was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse. He was, along with Vitsentzos Kornaros, one of the main representatives of a school of literature in the vernacular Cretan dialect that flourished in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Venetian rule.[2] His best-known work is Erofili (or Erophile), a tragedy set in Egypt.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Norman Davies . Norman Davies . . . 1996 . 0-19-820171-0 . 562 .
  2. Book: Robert Browning . Medieval and Modern Greek . . 1983 . 0-521-29978-0 . 90–91.