"Napoleon Lapathiotis"

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Napoleon Lapathiotis (31 October 1888 – 8 January 1944) was a Greek poet of the interwar period.

Life Story
He was born in Athens, on the night towards dawn on 31 October 1888 in a house of Saint Theodora Square. His father, Leonidas Lapathiotis (1854-1942), of origin from Cyprus, was a mathematician and a senior military officer, who served as MP in 1903-1905 and became minister of military in 1909. His mother, Vasiliki Papadopoulou, was the niece of Charilaos Trikoupis. She started writing poems since she was a child. A protoleic symmetric drama was published with his father's care. In letters he officially appeared in 1905, in Noumas magazine. In 1907 along with nine other young writers founded the magazine Leader.

He studied at the University of Athens where in 1909 he obtained a degree in Law, but never practiced the profession. In the autumn of 1916, along with his father, they settled in Thessaloniki and joined the National Defence movement. In the first half of 1917, Lapathiotis accompanied his father to Egypt to recruit volunteers for the army of the state of Thessaloniki. In Egypt he met Constantine Cavafy. He enlisted in the army as lieutenant-interpreter, a position he retained until 1921.

At first Lapathiotis was a supporter of Eleftherios Venizelos. In fact, he had participated in the national defence movement, as did his father. From the 1920s onwards he contacted the communist movement and then embraced communism.

In 1932 and then he wrote in the left magazine Pioneers the pedestrian song "Song for the awakening of the proletariat". In 1943 he was closely associated with the rebels of the Greek People's Liberation Army, according to statements by Tasos Vournas.

He lived for more than 40 years in his family's two-storey neoclassical under the hill of Strefi, Athens. There he wrote most of his poetic work but there he committed suicide on the night of January 7 to January 8, 1944, poor and depressed by drugs. His funeral was at a fundraiser for his friends.

In addition to poems, he also wrote over 100 prose, many dozens of short stories, as well as epiphylaxis and critical and aesthetic texts. His work is scattered into magazines and newspapers. His only poetry collection was published in 1939, while after his death, Mars Diktean published, in 1964, his poems.

The film project Meteoro and shadow (1985) is based on his life.

Other views on the causes of suicide
He committed suicide in his home with his father's pistol, military, who died at the beginning of the German Occupation, about four years after the poet's mother, leaving the orphan, morally and economically unprotected. Because despite his liberating way of living and his intelligence, his talent, his studies and language skills, "Lapathiotis never managed to be independent