STUDY OF DEATH: IOANNIS SYKOUTRIS

Abstract

Professor Ioannis Sykoutris (1901-1937) was a leading University Teacher and a brilliant personality for the intellectual life of Greece. In 1930 he was elected a professor at the University of Athens. His inaugural course was on "Philology and Life". Alongside the delivery of courses at the University and the popular lectures and seminars on various subjects, not only classical, but also modern Greek and modern European literature, he continued his scientific work. He took the initiative to organize the Hellenic Library series of the Academy of Athens, which would include annotated and translated editions of texts from ancient Greek literature. In 1934 he published the first volume of the series, Plato's Symposium, and began preparing the edition of Aristotle's Poetics, which was published in 1937 after his suicide. In 1936 he applied for the position of Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the Philosophy School of the University of Athens. From that year, and on the occasion of the introduction chapter of Plato's Symposium that referred to sexual relations in ancient Greece, it began to receive many attacks from academic circles and then from various associations and from the Holy Synod of the church. Two lawsuits were filed against him for the same matter. Sykoutris, disappointed by his social environment and the polemic he received, shut himself up and finally committed suicide in Corinth on September 21, 1937.

Keywords

• disappointment
• suicide
• depression

STUDY OF DEATH: IOANNIS SYKOUTRIS

Abstract

Profesör Ioannis Sykoutris (1901-1937), önde gelen bir Üniversite Öğretmeni ve Yunanistan'ın entelektüel yaşamı için parlak bir kişilikti. 1930'da Atina Üniversitesi'ne profesör seçildi. Açılış kursu "Filoloji ve Hayat" üzerineydi. Üniversitede verdiği dersler ve sadece klasik değil, aynı zamanda modern Yunan ve modern Avrupa edebiyatı olmak üzere çeşitli konularda popüler konferanslar ve seminerlerin yanı sıra bilimsel çalışmalarına devam etti. Atina Akademisi'nin, antik Yunan edebiyatından metinlerin açıklamalı ve tercüme edilmiş baskılarını içerecek olan Yunan Kütüphane serisini düzenlemek için inisiyatif aldı. 1934'te serinin ilk cildi olan Platon'un Sempozyumu'nu yayınladı ve intiharından sonra 1937'de yayınlanan Aristoteles'in Poetika'sının baskısını hazırlamaya başladı. 1936'da Atina Üniversitesi Felsefe Fakültesi'nde Antik Yunan Filolojisi Profesörü pozisyonuna başvurdu. O yıldan itibaren ve Antik Yunan'da cinsel ilişkilere değinen Platon'un Sempozyumu'nun giriş bölümü vesilesiyle önce akademik çevrelerden, ardından çeşitli derneklerden ve kilisenin Kutsal Sinodu'ndan çok sayıda eleştiri almaya başladı. Aynı konuda hakkında iki dava açıldı. Sosyal çevresi ve aldığı polemik yüzünden hayal kırıklığına uğrayan Sykoutris, kendini kapattı ve sonunda 21 Eylül 1937'de Korint'te intihar etti.

Keywords

• depression
• suicide
• disappointment

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