Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and the emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as Katharevousa. Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that "his influence on the modern Greek language and culture has been compared to that of Dante on Italian and Martin Luther on German".
Adamantios Korais (1748–1833)
Residence of Korais in Amsterdam
Cover from his "Salpisma Polemistirion" (1801)
Cenotaph of Korais; Montparnasse Cemetery.
Modern Greek literature is literature written in Modern Greek, starting in the late Byzantine era in the 11th century AD. It includes work not only from within the borders of the modern Greek state, but also from other areas where Greek was widely spoken, including Istanbul, Asia Minor, and Alexandria.
The headquarters of National Library of Greece
Manuscript of the Byzantine epic Digenes Akritas.
Dionysios Solomos is the national poet of Greece
Emmanuel Rhoides