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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Dimitrios Vikelas (1835–1908)

Vikelas, Dimitrios (bē-kā’las). An eminent Greek poet and essayist; born at Hermopolis, in the island of Syra, in 1835; died on July 20, 1908. After publishing a collection of his poems in London in 1862, he devoted himself to the task of making Shakespeare’s dramas known in Greece through excellent metrical translations. As a prose-writer he has won wide reputation with his tale ‘Lukis Laras’ (1879), which was translated into thirteen languages.