Marika Filippidou

Marika K. Filippidou was a Greek stage actress, poet and journalist. She made her debut at Athens’s Royal Theatre in 1904 and subsequently trained at the Conservatoire de Paris. Filippidou published poetry and founded the magazine Neos Parthenon. During the interwar years she wrote anti-suffrage columns for Ellínis, and in 1910 married composer Attik, inspiring several of his waltzes.