Bessarion Makris: Difference between revisions

He was born in [[Ioannina]], northwestern [[Greece]], center of the 17th-18th century [[Modern Greek Enlightenment]]. At 1672 Makris became the head of the Goumas (later known as Balanos) School. He composed a manual named ''Σταχυολογία'' (Set of Gleanings), printed in 1686 in [[Venice]]. This work introduced new teaching methods with a series of questions and answers on Greek grammar and was considered a create success in Greek education and especially among the schools of Ioannina.<ref>{{cite book|last=Merry|first=Bruce|title=Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=9780313308130978-0-313-30813-0|pages=162|edition=1. publ.}}</ref><ref name=Christidis>{{cite book|first=ed. by A.-F. Christidis|title=A history of ancient Greek : from the beginnings to late antiquity|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press|location=Cambridge [u.a.]|isbn=9780521833073978-0-521-83307-3|pages=1247–1248|edition=1. publ.}}</ref>