Dictators. Kostas Barnalis

Greek writer Kostas Barnaby (1884–1974) was born in Bulgaria, studied in Plovdiva, later entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Athenian University, after which he taught at the gymnasium. From 1919 to 1921 he listened to a lecture on philosophy and aesthetics in the Sorbonne. The first collections of his verses were aesthetic. He later moved to social topics, became a champion of revolutionary transformations in society. In 1934 he was invited to the USSR, where he took part in the first congress of Soviet writers; In 1956 he was awarded the International Lenin Prize “For Strengthening the World between the Peoples.” This book is brightly colored by the worldview on the era of the Roman Empire of the author himself, the portraits of the ruling elite are not just critically, but sometimes brought to sarcasm.