Antonios A. Antonakos was born in 1954 in Piraeus, where he grew up. He is a Classical Philologist and Historian, a graduate of the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and taught for 34 consecutive years in Secondary Education. He is a Professor at the War School of the Hellenic Air Force and a dialectologist at the Open University, and was a member of the Greek Committee for the Pan-European Ancient Greek Competition as well as a member of the Committee for the Exhibition of the Antiquities of Argos. He has participated in various Greek and international conferences on the Greek Language, and collaborates with professors of foreign universities on the methods of teaching and learning ancient Greek as a living language. A regular columnist in various newspapers and dozens of magazines, he publishes his special studies and research, related to the classical Greek language, history, folklore and politics. For more than a decade he held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the historical magazine "ELLINORAMA". He has written and published 32 books and has published 128 scientific studies, as well as hundreds of articles. He has been honored for his writing and his general contribution to Greek Literature by numerous Intellectual, Religious and Cultural organizations in Greece and the Greek Diaspora, as well as by dozens of Municipalities in the Greek Territory.