← Yannis RitsosEpitaphiosby Yannis RitsosLyric poem mourning and commemorating the dead and loss of innocenceFind on Amazon↗About the authorYannis RitsosGreek poet whose Epitaphios, written in response to a massacre of strikers in Thessaloniki, is one of the great political poems of the century. He spent years in detention during the Greek civil war and dictatorship.More by Yannis RitsosMoonlight Sonata→PhiloctetesModern dramatic poem based on ancient Greek myth and human suffering→RomiosiniPoetry celebrating Greek national identity and cultural resilience→Collected PoemsSelected poems from prolific twentieth century Greek poet→