Lakis Apostolopoulos

Lakis Apostolopoulos was born in Athens in 1940. He studied directing at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki. In 1967, he moved to Paris. In 1983, he was one of the pioneers in the establishment of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. In 1986, he took on the design and coordination of the 2nd Biennale of Young Artists from Mediterranean Europe in Thessaloniki. In 1998, he published the philosophical essay "The West of Ghosts and Inner Greece," where he examines the cultural relations between Greece and the West and simultaneously addresses the issue of modern Greek identity. In 2002, his essay "The Four Greeks" was published, dedicated to the philosophers of the "Mataroa"—Kostas Papaioannou, Cornelius Castoriadis, Kostas Axelos—and the musician Iannis Xenakis (published by Kaktos). Since 2002, he has been the president of the Contemporary Delphic Amphictyony, and since 2005, the president of the poetic institution "Kavafeia." In 2004, by creating an international research team, he brought to light the Byzantine dromon and published, together with the New Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina), the first book published by this library with a foreign entity, titled: "Treasures of Arab-Byzantine Navigation (7th-13th century)." In 2006, he edited the proceedings of the Kavafeia 2005 under the title: "Kavafeia 2005 - C. P. Cavafy and New Writers of the Mediterranean." In 2008, he organized the annual Kavafeia conference on the theme: "Athenian Democracy and the Modern World." The same year, he edited the proceedings of the Kavafeia 2006 under the title: "Kavafeia 2006 - Tribute to the Philosopher Kostas Papaioannou," published by the Contemporary Delphic Amphictyony. In 2009, he organized the annual Kavafeia conference on the theme: "Aspects of Hellenism in Literature 1880-1940." In 2010, he edited the proceedings of the Kavafeia 2007 under the title: "Kavafeia 2007 - Tribute to Cornelius Castoriadis, Thinker of Autonomy," published by the Contemporary Delphic Amphictyony.