id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5170 Modern Greek literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2717 420 49 The migration of Byzantine scholars and other émigrés during the decline of the Byzantine Empire (1203–1453) and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century is considered by some scholars as key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies and subsequently in the development of the Renaissance humanism[1] and science. The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this early period of modern Greek literature, and represents one of its supreme achievements. The years before the Greek Independence, the Ionian islands became the center of the Heptanese School (literature). Major representatives are Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Athanasios Christopoulos, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Erofili (c.1600), drama by Georgios Chortatzis (noted by Palamas as the first work of modern Greek theatre) History of Modern Greek Literature (1877) by Alexandros Rizos Rangavis ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5170.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5170.txt