← Yannis RitsosRomiosiniby Yannis RitsosPoetry celebrating Greek national identity and cultural resilienceFind 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 RitsosEpitaphiosLyric poem mourning and commemorating the dead and loss of innocence→Moonlight Sonata→PhiloctetesModern dramatic poem based on ancient Greek myth and human suffering→Collected PoemsSelected poems from prolific twentieth century Greek poet→