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.