Ioannis - Andreas G. Vlachos

Ioannis-Andreas Vlachos was born in 1947 in Paris. He studied political science in Athens and Paris and works at the Hellenic Foundation for Culture. He has translated Andreas Kalvos' "Odes" into French (co-published by Indiktos - L' Age d'Homme, State Award 1998) and poems by Paul Valéry and other French poets into Greek. The University of Montpellier has published two extensive studies by him on Paul Valéry's connections with ancient Greek architecture and Greek mythology ("Revue des etudes Valeryennes", Universite Paul Valery), one of which has also been released in Greece ("Paul Valéry and the Parthenon", published by Indiktos). For these works, the French government recently honored him with the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. He has also explored the Homeric Odyssey as a source of inspiration for the French writer André Gide (Indiktos magazine, issue 9). He has been systematically studying the Homeric epics for approximately three decades. The book "Homer and Lesbos" is the first in a series of his studies, the result of his long-standing engagement with Homeric works, focusing on unraveling the close connections of the preeminent poet of antiquity with the broader region of the northeastern Aegean, particularly with Lesbos.