Sarantos Kargakos

Sarantos I. Kargakos (1937-2019) was born in Gytheio in 1937. During the Civil War, he moved to Athens. He studied classical philology at the University of Athens. He was a leading figure in the protest movement of 1961-1967 and was the proponent of allocating 15% of the budget to education. He worked for thirty-five years at the largest private educational institutions in Athens and major tutoring organizations, where he was always a founding member. He collaborated with magazines such as Oikonomikos Tachydromos, Koinonikes Tomes, Ichneftis, Ellopia, Ardin, Efthyni, and 4 Trochoi. For four years (1997-2001), he was a columnist, feuilletonist, and critic for the newspapers Eleftheros Typos and Typos tis Kyriakis. He authored over sixty books. Notable among them are the linguistic studies "Alalia" and "Alexia," the historical study "From the Macedonian Question to the Involvement of Skopje," the essay collections "Reflections: A Dialogue with the Youth" (6 volumes) and "Shifting Sands," the two-volume historical work "History of the Greek World and the Greater Area," the historical study "Albanians - Arvanites - Greeks," the extensive monograph "Alexandroupoli, a New City with an Old History," and the political study "Globalization: Towards a Global Totalitarian System of Power." He passed away on January 14, 2019, at the age of 82.