{"id":2356,"date":"2002-09-07T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2002-09-07T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.grcretan-folk-poetry\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:32:23","slug":"cretan-folk-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/cretan-folk-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cretan Folk Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_1494854953\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row row-full-width\"  id=\"row-774734423\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-192029694\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1944767441\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-animate=\"fadeInLeft\">\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-3 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-588x800.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\u0392\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af\u03bf \u039a\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7 \u0399. \u0393\u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-588x800.jpg 588w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-294x400.jpg 294w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-768x1045.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-1128x1536.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7-1504x2048.jpg 1504w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/\u039a\u03c1\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u0308\u03ba\u03b7\u0301-\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u0301\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7.jpg 1528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1944767441 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-559859878\" class=\"col medium-7 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-2274751782\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<h3>Mantinades, Rizitika, Historical, Allegorical, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2274751782 {\n  font-size: 1.8rem;\n  line-height: 1;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2985749380\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Proverbial Mantinades, Mantinades of Life<\/strong><br><br>My first inspiration in the realm of our cultural heritage came when I started documenting some proverbs, phrases, and even words that I saw were slowly being abandoned from the vernacular of rural Crete. I easily noticed that my grandfather used certain words that my parents did not (e.g., \u03ad\u03c7\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9 instead of \u03ad\u03c7\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5, \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 instead of \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9), and my parents in turn used words that we, the children who attended elementary school, no longer used (e.g., \u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03b7\u03b8\u03b7\u03be\u03b5 instead of \u03b2\u03bf\u03ae\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5, \u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03c3\u03b1\u03bf\u03af\u03c2 instead of \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u0391\u03b3\u03af\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2). Although I lacked even secondary education, I began to record what I later learned are called \u201cfolklore materials,\u201d which constitute part of our \u201ccultural heritage.\u201d   <\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2985749380 {\n  text-align: left;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-233668264\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-233668264 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/\u039a\u03a1\u0397\u03a4\u0399\u039a\u0397-\u039b\u0391\u0399\u039a\u0397-\u03a0\u039f\u0399\u0397\u03a3\u0397.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button primary box-shadow-2 lowercase\" rel=\"noopener\"  style=\"padding:6px 30px 6px 30px;\">\n\t<i class=\"icon-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" ><\/i>\t<span>Read the book<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-559859878 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 1% 0px 1%;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #col-559859878 > .col-inner {\n    padding: 0px 2% 0px 2%;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1494854953 {\n  padding-top: 5px;\n  padding-bottom: 5px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first inspiration in the field of our cultural heritage was when I began recording certain proverbs, phrases, and even words that I noticed were gradually disappearing from the spoken language of the Cretan countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}