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Google doodle marks 101st anniversary of Elytis birth

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The 101st anniversary of the birth of the late Nobel-winning Greek poet Odysseas Elytis is marked on Friday by Google, with a special Greece doodle depicting the poet, an olive tree, a cluster of grapes and a boat.

The November 2, 2012 "Greece doodle", or Google Greek logo of the day, celebrates the Greek "poet of the Aegean", regarded as a major exponent of poetic modernism in Greece, and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "Axion Esti".

Elytis was born Odysseas Alepoudelis on November 2, 1911 in Heraklion, Crete, and was a descendent of the eminent industrial Alepoudelis family from the Aegean island of Lesvos.

"If you deconstruct Greece, at the end you will see that you are left with an olive tree, a vineyard and a boat. Which means that you can rebuild it," Elytis had once said, and this phrase inspired Friday's 'Greece doodle'.

Elytis died on March 18, 1966 from a heart attack, leaving behind a rich literary heritage.

Google has had several logos since its renaming from BackRub, while it also includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, which have become known as Google Doodles.

The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998 and since then Google doodles have been produced for the birthdays of several noted artists and scientists, including Andy Warhol, Bela Bartok, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, H.G. Wells, Freddie Mercury, Mahatma Gandhi, Antonio Vivaldi, Jules Verne and Theodore Angelopoulos, among others.


SOURCE: ATHENS NEWS AGENCY

Last Updated Friday, 02 November 2012
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