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Epaminondas Xenopoulos-Tyrokomos (Constantinople 1918 - May 5, 1994) was a Greek Marxist philosopher, writer, translator and professional printer.
Biography
Epaminondas Xenopoulos-Tyrokomos was born in Constantinople in 1920. He studied French and graduated in 1937 from the Leonteios Lyceum of Athens (FRERES MARISTES). Professionally a typist (1940), he worked from the age of sixteen as a typesetter typist, practicing the profession for 40 years honestly and conscientiously.

During the German Occupation, he was a fighter and rebel in EAM-ELAS. He was organized in the EAM of Paleas Kokkinias in January 1942. In June 1943 he was hired by SEK (Hellenic State Railways) in the engine room of Rentis as an administrative employee and transferred to EAM SEK. In December 1943 he was assigned to the ELAS of the Rentis engine room in III of the sixth 6th Independent Regiment of Piraeus with the military commander Major Kyvelos and Captain Nikandros Kepesis. In 1948 he was sent to the disgrace of our civilization, to the earthly hell of Makronissos where he was held for two (2) years.

 

He was a speaker at the humanities studies seminars at the "DIMITRIS GLINOS" Cultural Center, editor of the editions of the political and economic magazine "EREYNA" by the founder Yiannis N. Vistakis, collaborator of the literary magazine "IOLKOS", columnist at the magazine "COMMUNISTIC REVIEW" member of the Editors of Hellinikon Press, the Society of Greek Writers and a member of the Panhellenic Union of National Resistance Fighters (PEAEA).
He died on May 5, 1994