Spyros Melas

Spyros Melas was a Greek journalist, writer, dramatist, stage director, editor and academic. He was one of the most productive figures with a long-standing service and manifold activities in the intellectual domain of his time. He was born in Nafpaktos and joined the Athens University Law School, but did not complete his studies. He started his career in journalism with the newspapers 'Asty' and 'Acropolis', while he was soon distinguished as a chronicler and war correspondent at the Balkan Wars, where he served as an artillery sergeant and at the Greco-Italian war, as well. He published his experience in his book "Polemikes selides" (War Pages).