Vasilios Fragopoulos was born in the refugee city of Nicea in 1969. He studied iconography and pre-hospital care. He works as a rescuer at EKAV. A technical manual for making portable icons has been released by Ion publications entitled Amateur Hagiographer. He has also published the study As Disciples of Homer, on the subject of the figure of speech of simile and how we find it in early modern Greek literature.