Professor emeritus of the University of Crete, Alexis Politis, has died - "Greek letters mourn"

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his deep sorrow over the death of Alexis Politis

Alexis Politis, a distinguished philologist, university professor and leading scholar of Greek oral and written tradition, with important work on folk songs and modern Greek... Alexis Politis: The leading philologist and thinker has died - NAFTEMPORIKI

On Friday (11/4), the professor of philology who dealt with the “roots” of folk song, Alexis Politis, lost his life at the age of 80. More...

His last breath at the age of 80 was left by Professor Emeritus of the University of Crete, Alexis Politis. Alexis Politis was born in 1945 in Athens. He studied Modern Greek literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Université Paris IV (Sorbonne). From 1976 to 1989 he worked at the Centre for Modern Greek Research of the National Research Foundation and from 1989 to 2012 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philology of the …