12 Facts About Ioannis Miliadis

Ioannis Miliadis was a lifelong writer, poet and translator, often writing these works under pseudonyms.

Ioannis Miliadis died on 24 September 1975, at a meeting at the Ministry of Culture on the Acropolis.

Ioannis Miliadis's father, Nikolaos Miliadis, was an officer in the Hellenic Army; his mother was Kalliopi Koufogianni.

The younger Miliadis studied at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens, where he was a student of the archaeologist Christos Tsountas, and took classes in law, and carried out postgraduate study in Vienna, Berlin and Munich.

Ioannis Miliadis became a supporter of demoticisation, and joined a youth movement affiliated to Alexandros Papanastasiou, a Venizelist, republican politician.

From his youth, Ioannis Miliadis wrote poems, essays and translations, often under pseudonyms: one of these was "Julius Narcissus".

Ioannis Miliadis entered the Greek Archaeological Service in 1919, and became an ephor in 1925.

Ioannis Miliadis's excavations included work at Agrinio, Thermos, Ambrakia, Nikopolis, Corfu and Lefkada.

In 1940, Ioannis Miliadis was made director of the Acropolis Museum, and concealed its holdings from the German occupiers during the Axis occupation of Greece.

Ioannis Miliadis attended the first meeting of the EAM's National Council at Koryschades in 1944, temporarily leaving his post in the Archaeological Service in order to do so.

Ioannis Miliadis was reinstated to the Archaeological Service in 1951, and returned to the directorship of the Acropolis Museum.

Ioannis Miliadis died on 24 September 1975, at a meeting at the Ministry of Culture on the Acropolis of Athens.