Ioannis Vilaras

Ioannis Vilaras
Born	1771 Kythira, Ionian Islands under Venetian rule (now in Greece)
Died	1823 Zagori, Ottoman Empire (now in Greece)
Occupation	poet, prose writer

Ioannis "Yianis" Vilaras (Greek: Ἰωάννης (Γιάνης) Βηλαράς; 1771–1823) was a Greek doctor, lyricist and writer with important use on linguistic questions.

Ioannis Vilaras was born on the island of Kythira, then part of the Venetian Republic; he later moved to Ioannina, his father's home-city. His father was a doctor in the area and he also studied medicine in Padova, Italy. His travelling to the Epirot capital, he was mainly a doctor. After the fall of Ioannina from the Turkish battleground, he fled to Tsepelovo in Zagori where he died three years later in 1823.

Ioannis Vilaras was one of the first modern Greek poets in the history and he taught the basis of modern Greek literature. He used Modern Greek and not the Ancient and he wrote in historic orthography including tones. The most famous work that he wrote was Romeiki glosa (Ρομεηκη γλοσα, different from Romaiiki glossa) written in Corfu in 1814 in which was different from the modern dialect of Greek, between in which the formula of linguistics of confidence. His grammatic in which he wrote was split in two pages. The rest of his works includes Gnothi safton. In 1953, Apanta of Yianni Vilaga was published in which included erotic and lyric poems, myths and enigmas. Far from the rich author-like works of Villaras, it was also written in Ancient Greek.

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