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Dimitris Liantinis (born 23 July 1942, in Greek: Δημήτρης Λιαντίνης, also transliterated as Dimitris Liadinis) was a Greek deputy professor for Philosophy of education and Didaktic of the old and new greek literature at University of Athens and writer of 8 books. His last book is Gemma (book) (Γκέμμα).

He has achieved popularity in Greece because of his strange and unexplained disappearance in a morning of 1.6. 1998 at the age of 56 years. It is thought that he committed suicide in 1998 on the mountains of Taigetos. His last university lecture was delivered on 27 May 1998. In his letter to his family he wrote "I go away by my own will. I disappear standing, strong, and proud."

A taxi driver in Sparta has claimed that he saw Liantinis as a customer to his taxi car near Sparti (near Taigetos) the day he disappeared, and claimed that he was wearing a blue shirt and white footwear. In 2005 some human bones where found in the area of the mountain taygetos. It has been claimed that in one of his books, Gemma, he described a philosophical viewpoint that some people consider it being related to his future disappearance: he wrote that eros and death are the same thing. As a great poet he wrote in his last book GEMMA "I will die, Death, when I want and not when you want. In this last act, your desire is not going to be realised, it is my desire which will be realised. I fight against your will. I fight your power. I fight all of your entity. I will enter into the earth when I decide, not when you decide." In the last time appeared an official site for Professor Liantinis,www.liantinis.gr, written and managed by his wife Professor Nikolitsa Georgopoulou, with letters to his wife, manuscripts, not edited texts and critical comments for his books.

Some people believe that Liantinis took his own life as a protest against what he saw as the lack of values in the modern Greek society. In his last letter to his daughter he wrote: "My last act has the meaning of protest for the evil that we, the adults, prepare for the innocent new generations that are coming. We live our life eating their flesh. A very bad evil. My unhappiness for this crime kills me."

Philosophical Views

Most of Liantinis' writings focus around what he saw as the tremendous moral and mental decline of modern Greek civilization, especially in contrast with its ancient equivalent. To establish his position further, he devotes a big part of his writings in trying to define exactly what was the value of ancient Greece and why it has such a central role in western culture.

References

1. ^ http://www.liantinis.gr/gramma.shtml

External links

• Liantinis Official Website
• Website dedicated to Liantinis
• YouTube search results about Liantinis
• Short biography of Liantinis

• Orphaned articles from February 2009
• Missing people
• 1942 births