Marinos Antypas

Marinos Antypas was a lawyer, journalist and labour organiser.

Antypas was born in the village Feredinata of Kefalonia in 1872 and was murdered in Pirgetos of Thessaly at 1907. He was one of the first Greek socialists and he fought for the prevalence of the socialistic ideas. He has been a member of the Central Socialist Society in Athens during his studies. He had also been also a voluntary soldier in the Cretan Revolution of 1896. For this action he was imprisoned and exiled in the island of Aegina.

In Kefalonia he published the journal "Anastasi" and founded, in Argostoli, the center of social and spiritual questioning "The equality". Afterwards, he visited the farm of his uncle Gerasimos Skiadaresis in Thessaly. There, he incited the "koligoi"(farmers) against the "tsiflikades" (large landowners). The landowners, annoyed at his role in the "agrarian problem", murdered him in Pirgetos (present-day Rapsani) on 7 March 1907. His assassination shocked the farmers and he became quickly a legendary hero and rebel amongst them. His action influenced the great agrarian revolution of Kileler in March of 1910 and the Greek socialists in general.

Antypas was honored on a Greek postage stamp in the "Personalities" set.

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