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Mimaros was the nickname of Dimitrios Sardounis (1865 - 1912) an early artist of the
Sardounis was born in Patra in 1865, the illegitimate son of a woman from a well-to-do family. He lived in Messolonghi until 1876 when his step-father died and then returned to Patra.
Sardounis studied Byzantine music and became the head cantor at the church of St. Andrew. He was the first to convert Karagiozis into a family-oriented popular theatre (ca. 1890). For this he is considered the first teacher of the shadow theatre in Greece.
He died in 1912. After him, his pupils Theodoros Theodorellos, Yiannis Roulias and Memos Christodoulou continued their mentor's work and spread Karagiozis throughout Greece.