← Odysseas ElytisMaria Nefeliby Odysseas ElytisModernist verse exploring dialogue between tradition and contemporary city lifeFind on Amazon↗About the authorOdysseas ElytisGreek poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1979. The Axion Esti is his masterpiece, a celebration of Greek light, landscape, and the experience of the Second World War.More by Odysseas ElytisOrientations→Sun the FirstModernist poem celebrating light, nature, and Greek landscape consciousness→Heroic and Elegiac SongEpic poem blending heroic and elegiac modes in twentieth century verse→The Axion EstiMajor epic poem celebrating Orthodox faith and modern Greek identity→
