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Leonidas-Vasileios Maniatis was born in Amarousion, a
suburb of Athens, in 1994. After his graduation from the General Lyceum (the
Greek equivalent to High School) of the Franco-Greek School of Ursulines, in
June 2012 and his success in the Panhellenic Exams, he was accepted as a
student in the Department of History and Archaeology of the Philosophical
School of the University of Ioannina. In April 2014, his application for
transfer to the same Department and School of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens was accepted. He graduated from that Department, choosing
the field of study of Archaeology, in May 2018, with a degree of 8,64/10. He
was also honored to be selected to pronounce the oath on behalf of his fellow
students, because of his high grading. From September 2018, he continued his
studies for his Master Diploma, at the Same Department of the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, by choosing to specialize in Prehistoric
Archaeology. He concluded his studies there, with a degree of 7,75/10, in
November 2022.
During his studies, he participated in the
archaeological excavation of his Department at Plasi, Marathon, from late May
to early June 2017.
Leonidas-Vasileios is also a writer. He writes prose
and poetry and some of his writings have been distinguished in a variety of
literature competitions, in Greece and Cyprus (15th Panhellenic Student
Literature Contest of the Society of Publishers of Northern Greece, Larry Niven
Awards 2015, Logo-Technia 2015 Contest, Contest for the Return of the
sculptures of Parthenon of the UNESCO Association of Piraeus and the Isles,
Larry Niven Awards 2016, Larry Niven Awards 2017, 2nd Panhellenic Contest of
Poetry of Limassol’s Cultural Horizons, 8th Universal Literature Contest of the
Greek Cultural Association of Cypriots in Greece, Silver Page III Contest, 4th
Panhellenic Contest of Literary Expression of the Municipality of Vyron, Game
of Thrones in Byzantium Contest, Larry Niven Awards 2018, Larry Niven Awards
2020, Larry Niven Awards 2021 and 3rd Prose Contest KEFALOS).
Starting on 24 November 2019, he also published via
Blogger, a collection of 40 crosswords and cryptext puzzles, related to the
lesson of Byzantine History in the second year of Gymnasium (the Greek
equivalent to Middle School). The majority of these puzzles are related to
specific chapters of the student’s book and are focused on key-words that the
student has to learn, in order to comprehend his study and some other of these
puzzles are more general in character. That corpus has been released on the
Internet, so that anyone can access it for free, from anywhere in the world.
The corpus itself, as well as the blog, are dedicated to the memory of his late
High School (Lyceum) teacher, Ada Tsaka. You can access that blog for free, by
using the link below:
https://empedosi-psychagogia.blogspot.com
In the context of his participation in the
aforementioned international programs, he attended international meetings and
conferences, held at Leiria, Portugal (2022), at Agia Marina of Lesvos, Greece
(2022), at Archangelos of Rhodes, Greece (2023), at the city of Rhodes, Greece
(2023) and at Sarzana, Italy (2023).
By now, on the list of his published literature works,
there are three personal books and over 20 prose writings and poems,
participating in various anthologies.
You can find Leonidas-Vasileios' account on Goodreads
by clicking here, and his Facebook account, by clicking here.
Last Update (dd/mm/yyyy): 27/11/2022
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