Anastasios Tagis
Anastasios Tagis (Greek: Αναστάσιος Τάγης, 1839–1900) was a Greek scholar and philological teacher of the 19th century.
Biography
[edit]Tagis was born in Monodendri of Ioannina (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1839.[1][2] He graduated from the Rizarios School of Athens and later from the Philolological School of the University of Athens where he was awarded the teacher of philology degree.[2][3] He initially taught in the Gymnasium of Samos, after in Crete and then in Halki.[1] In 1873, he founded, along with others, a Greek high school in Pera of Constantinople (officially Konstaniniyye) and taught in it with his brother, Filippos.[4] Later, in 1869, he was elected a member of the Greek Philological Society of Constantinople (Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος εν Κωνσταντινούπολει).[5] He also taught in the Vasmatzidis School of Pera and in the famous Zografeion Lyceum.[2]
He wrote interpretations of the Aristotelian definitions of tragedy, elegies, pindar odes and commented on Xenophon and the myths of Aesop.[6] He spoke the Ancient Greek language fluently and completed a Delphic Hymn in 1894.[6]
He died in 1900, at the age of 60 or 61.[2][7]
References
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^ a b «Αλφαβητικός κατάλογος : Τ - Τα», Τάγης Αναστάσιος (1839 – 1900), Φιλόλογος", hellenicaworld
- ^ a b c d Papazisis Dimitrios, «Βιογραφική συλλογή λογίων Ελλήνων επί Τουρκοκρατίας (Ηπείρου – Θεσσαλίας – Μακεδονίας)», Ηπειρωτική Εστία 27 (1978) 981
- ^ Theodoros G. Orphanides, "Ημέρα της επισήμου εγκαθιδρύσεως των νέων αρχών του Εθνικού πανεπιστημίου υπό του πρυτάνεως Θεοδώρου Γ. Ορφανίδου", p. 88, first published in 1868.
- ^ Thrakika: syngramma periodikon ekdidomenon hypo tou en Athēnais "Thrakikou Kentrou" kai tēs "Hetairias Thrakikōn Meletōn.", vol. 1, To Kentro (1978), originally by Indiana University
- ^ Greek Philological Society,«Ο εν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος: Σύγγραμμα Περιοδικόν», vol. 7, Constantinople, 1874, page ιγ'
- ^ a b Dictionary of Greek: Τάγης II, 1. Αναστάσιος (1839 – 1900), greek_greek.enacademic
- ^ Νεκρολογία Αναστασίου Τάγη, originally by Η Ήπειρος, 1910, p. 7-11
- Sources
- Jiovas Frixos, "Κατάλογος Συγγραφέων Περιοχής Ζαγορίου (Από τον Μεθόδιο Ανθρακίτη έως σήμερα)" [List of writers of the region of Zagori (From Methodios Anthrakites to today)], Ioannina, publ. Το Ζαγόρι μας, 1990, p. 64