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Dionysios Romas (1906-1981) studied literature and art history in Athens, Switzerland and Germany. He was fluent in four European languages. He wrote plays, novels, chronicles, studies, numerous radio sketches and published poems and prose in newspapers and magazines in Zakynthos and Athens. From May 1951 to March 1956 he wrote the daily chronicle for the Athenian newspaper 'Eleftheria'. He translated from English, French, German and Italian more than 25 plays, which were presented by the National Theatre and other companies. He was elected twice as a member of the Parliament of Zakynthos, in 1958 and 1961. He served the theatre from various positions and was instrumental in the establishment of the Third Programme in 1954. His swan song was the fictional chronicle Periplus. In the ten books he published, out of the eighteen that would make up the entire work, beginning in 1571 with the narrative of the Battle of Nafpaktos, he masterfully treats all the discoveries of the human spirit and preserves the folklore of the Zakynthians. Among his best known plays are "The Zante Serenade", "The Three Worlds", "Zabelaki" and "Casanova in Corfu".