Ioannis Kakridis

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Ioannis Kakridis (Greek: Ιωάννης Κακριδής) (1901-1992) was a Greek classical scholar.

He was born in Athens in 1901 and received his PhD at the University of Athens. He went on to become a professor at the universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Tübingen, Stockholm, Lund and Uppsala. In 1942, he was persecuted by some of his colleagues at the university of Athens for publishing one of his books in the monotonic system. He was one of the most famed and staunch advocates of the adoption of the monotonic system in the Greek language.

The list of his written work is quite extensive. The most important works are a translation to the modern Greek language of the works of Homer, together with Nikos Kazantzakis and a five-volume collection of Greek mythology.