ΧΕΙΡΟΓΡΑΦΑ ΤΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΗ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΥ (1864-1946) ΣΤΟ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΤΗΡΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΙΑΣΟΥ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣΛΗΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΚΑΛΒΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ Δ. Ν. ΒΕΡΝΑΡΔΑΚΗ

Abstract

A collection of four manuscripts by Ioannis Olymbios (1864-1946) is presented in this article, located in the library of the Reading Room in Agiasos, in Lesvos. Three of the collection’s manuscripts contain D. N. Vernardakis’ works: “Merope”, “Maria Doxapatri” and “Prolegomena peri ethnikou ellinikou dramatos”. One of the manuscripts contains Andreas Kalvos’ work “Odai”. This particular manuscript, created in Tyrnavos, Thessaly in January 1883, replicates the Athenian version of “Odai” (1864). Ioannis Olymbios’s origin was from Macedonia but he lived in Mytilene. In 1883, he was a freshman in the School of Philosophy in Athens. The annexation of Thessaly by the Greek state in 1881 and, perhaps, Juliette Lamber’s (Madame Adam) study on Andreas Kalvos, intensified his interest in Kalvos poetry. The 1883 manuscript is an evidence of welcoming the poet Kalvos, even before Kostis Palamas’ known lecture “Kalvos o Zakynthios” in Athens, in 1889.