Sotiris Kakisis

Sotiris Kakisis (born 1954, Athens) is a contemporary Greek poet. He is
a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry
(Sappho, Alcaeus, Hipponax, Mimnermus etc.). Kakisis has also translated
into modern Greek famous works by Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Lyman
Frank Baum, James Thurber, Edward Gorey, Marcel Proust, and the
"Complete Prose of" Woody Allen. He has had a long career in journalism,
excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted
several films, notably director Giorgos Panousopoulos' Love Me Not? and
Athens Blues. His adaptations of Euripides' Medea and Herondas'
Mimiamboi have been stage-produced by the State Theater of Norway and
the Greek National Theater, respectively. The Greek National Theater
presented the summer of 2020 at the Epidaurus ancient theater festival
his translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the summer of 2021 his
translation of Aristophanes' The Knights.